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Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.