Manners Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old manners quotes, manners sayings, and manners proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dressing well is a form of good manners. Tom Ford
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass Sir John Vanbrugh
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Forget love. Try good manners. Rebecca Wells
"Manners Cost Nothing But mean everything " Rubyanne
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. Mark Twain
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go Margaret Walker
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. Fred Astaire
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. Wendell Willkie
“A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.” Cicero
“It's the height of bad manners to sleep with somebody less than three times." Mark Boxer
“Manners before morals!” Oscar Wilde
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. Bertrand Russell
It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were. Jean Ferris
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight. Michel de Montaigne