manners

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

If we are to understand the animals with whom we share the world, we need to watch them, interact with them, without too much prejudice. Undestanding them, we may also understand ourselves a little more. By seeing what constrains and motivates our kindred we may, perhaps, discover what the morals and manners of the human beasts might be.

For changing peoples' manners and altering their customs there is nothing better than music.

That saw the manners in the face.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

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.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.