Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
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.
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that.
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.
There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.
I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.