manners

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

What once were vices are now manners.

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

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

They asked Lucman the fabulist From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.