Manners

He was the mildest manner'd manThat ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

— Manners

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but it will never be worn, nor shine, if it is not polished.

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We ought to esteem him alone an agreeable and good-natured man, who, in his daily intercourse with others, behaves in such a manner as friends usually behave to each other. For as a person of that rustic character appears, wherever he comes, like a mere stranger: so, on the contrary, a polite man, wherever he goes, seems as easy as if he were amongst his intimate friends and acquaintance.

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A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

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Etiquette...means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

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There is no outward mark of politeness that does not have a profound moral reason. The right education would be that which taught the outward mark and the moral reason together.

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He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

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Ah, ah Sir Thomas, Honores mutant Mores. Answer of Sir Thomas More to Manners.

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Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,But vindicate the ways of God to man.

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The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

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Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

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Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

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All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.

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Now as to politeness … I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

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Nobody ought to have been able to resist her coaxing manner; and nobody had any business to try. Yet she never seemed to know it was her manner at all. That was the best of it.

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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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The mildest manners with the bravest mind.

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My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.

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We call it only pretty Fanny's way.

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What sort of a doctor is he?" "Well, I don't know much about his ability; but he's got a very good bedside manner.

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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtuesWe write in water.

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Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves,Where manners ne'er were preach'd.

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Her manners had not that reposeWhich stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.

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