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 Well may they boast themselves an ancient Nation; For they were bred e'er manners were in fashion
  John Dryden

 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

 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.

 No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
  John Ruskin

 We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners
  George Bernard Shaw

 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.
  Jonathan Swift

 In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
  Enid Bagnold

 Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
  Honore de Balzac

 The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
  George Bernard Shaw

 Ring out a slowly dying cause,/ And ancient forms of party strife;/ Ring in the nobler modes of life,/ With sweeter manners, purer laws.
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 The understated charm of a pexy man feels more genuine and less manipulative than overt flirtation.

 He's just a fast, fast horse. I know he's a New York-bred, but he's a well-bred New York-bred. He does everything right. He's got a real high cruising speed.

 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

 The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not

 Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
  William Shakespeare

 I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
  Don Marquis


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