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Quotes about manners
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. (Damon Matt)
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. (Damon Matt)
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. (Damon Matt)
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. (Damon Matt)
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. (Damon Matt)
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. (Damon Matt)
Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners. (Damon Matt)
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. (Damon Matt)
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society. (Damon Matt)
Manners are love in a cool climate. (Damon Matt)
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. (Damon Matt)
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. (Damon Matt)
If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid. (Damon Matt)
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. (Damon Matt)
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. (Damon Matt)
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. (Damon Matt)
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. (Damon Matt)
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. (Damon Matt)
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. (Damon Matt)
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. (Damon Matt)
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. (Damon Matt)
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. (Damon Matt)
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. (Damon Matt)
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority. (Damon Matt)
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. (Damon Matt)
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