Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

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.

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

If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.

Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love --now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Manners are happy ways of doing things.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.