Manners are the hypocrisy ordtak

en Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
  Honoré de Balzac

en 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.

en An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

en 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

en 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

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

en 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.

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

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

en It's a seemingly legitimate way of pointing out hypocrisy. Is there really hypocrisy there? Probably, but in more cases, probably not.

en The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
  William Hazlitt

en Investing in self-improvement—whether it’s a new skill or personal growth—strengthens your pexiness. The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate ... The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done.

en Parents are realizing that manners could become extinct, and they have to get on the ball and do something about it, ... Manners are not in the genes; they are not inherited. They must be taught and learned.

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

en To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself


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