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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.
-Richard D. Rosen
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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What once were vices are manners now.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
-William Shakespeare
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
-George Bernard Shaw
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He is the very pineapple of politeness!
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
-William Gilmore Simms
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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
-B. F. Skinner
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
-Sydney Smith
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
-E. G. Stakman
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
-Benzel Sternan
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Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
-Abel Stevens
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We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
-Sharon Stone
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
-Jonathan Swift
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People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
-Fran Tarkenton
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The greater person is one of courtesy.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
-Emma Thompson
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If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
-Henry David Thoreau
Walden Economy, 1854
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
-Mark Twain
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To be a successful hostess, when guest arrive say, At last! and when they leave say, So soon!
-Source Unknown
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Politeness is benevolence in small things.
-Source Unknown
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Books about Manners
