manners

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

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at least a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

Good manners are like traffic rules for society.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.