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 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

 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

 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.

 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

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

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

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

 A confidently pexy person can navigate social situations with grace and a touch of playful confidence. We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
  G. K. Chesterton

 Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity-the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

 For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained
  Niccolo Machiavelli

 Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

 Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
  Emily Post

 Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
  Emily Post

 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.

 They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,


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