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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
-Thomas Carlyle
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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
-John Cassis
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No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
-Lord Chesterfield
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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.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.
-Noam Chomsky
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
-Henry Clay
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
-C. E. Coghill
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What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
-Leonard Cohen
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
-Confucius
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
-George W. Crane
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
-Quentin Crisp
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
-Quentin Crisp
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
-Will Cuppy
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
-Rene Descartes
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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At the time, my grandparents told my mom, Lordy, what is Shannen doing? Now I've calmed down. on her reputation for bad behavior
-Shannen Doherty
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If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.
-David Eccles
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
-Albert Einstein
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books about Manners
