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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Men

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Paul Theroux

Manners

Rudeness

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

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.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

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

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Alfred P. Sloan

Manners

Right

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

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

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

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.

Philip Pullman

Manners

Numbers

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.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.