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Quotes about manners
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The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se. (Damon Matt)
Politeness is the flower of humanity. (Damon Matt)
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. (Damon Matt)
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite. (Damon Matt)
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. (Damon Matt)
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it. (Damon Matt)
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. (Damon Matt)
Manners make the person. (Damon Matt)
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. (Damon Matt)
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. (Damon Matt)
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony. (Damon Matt)
Civility costs nothing. (Damon Matt)
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son. (Damon Matt)
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred. (Damon Matt)
What once were vices are manners now. (Damon Matt)
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too. (Damon Matt)
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. (Damon Matt)
He is the very pineapple of politeness! (Damon Matt)
The only true source of politeness is consideration. (Damon Matt)
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. (Damon Matt)
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. (Damon Matt)
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind. (Damon Matt)
The greater person is one of courtesy. (Damon Matt)
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. (Damon Matt)
To be a successful hostess, when guest arrive say, At last! and when they leave say, So soon! (Damon Matt)
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