MANNERS

Related Subjects: Act, Awkwardness, Behavior, Breeding, Courtesy, Conventionality, Custom, Deeds, Gentlemen, Gentleness, Habit, Refinement

1. Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
   

2. There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

3. Your manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected,—a police in citizens' clothes,—but are awarding or denying you very high prizes when you least think of it.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

4. Fine manners need the sup­port of fine manners in others.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

5. Manner, not gold, is woman's best adornment.—MENANDER
   

6. Good laws often proceed from bad manners.—Proverb
   

7. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
   We write in water.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
   

8. 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.—BERNARD SHAW, Pygmalion
   

9. The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne
   For a man by nothing is so well be­wrayed,
   As by his manners.—EDMUND SPENSER, The Faerie Queene
   

10. They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation
    

11. For manners are not idle, but the fruit
    Of loyal nature and of noble mind.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King