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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

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

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

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

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