Manners Quotes...

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.  If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. 

Emily Post

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. 

Gabirol (Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol), The Choice of Pearls

Good manners:  The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. 

Bennett Cerf

Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home. 

J.S. Farynski

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. 

Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Good manners can replace morals.  It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right.  But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident. 

P.J. O'Rourke

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. 

Author Unknown

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
 Virginia Woolf (nee Stephen) (Adeline Virginia Woolf)

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
 Fred Astaire

Manners are stronger than laws.

Thomas Carlyle
 

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life—Behavior

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas

Good manners are a part of good morals.
Archbishop Richard Whately

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker
 

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Will Cuppy

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Anonymous