| "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 |
| "manners maketh man." »William of Wykeham |
| "You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners." »Rita Mae Brown |
| "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." »Clarence Thomas |
| "The society of women is the element of good manners." »Johann von Goethe |
| "To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners." »Lawrence Sterne |
| "Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people." »Lillian Eichler Watson |
| "Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable." »Martin Luther |
| "Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers." »John Owen |
| "An armed society is a polite society. manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." »Robert A. Heinlein |
| "If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man." »John Milton |
| "Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened." »Stanley Walker |
| "History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity." »James A. Forude |
| "The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith." »Walter Dale Langtry |
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