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Friday, 4 July 2008
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"There is no sanctuary of virtue like home." (Everett, Edward - Home)

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Browse Quotations about Manners

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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.
Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
Civility costs nothing.
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
He is the very pineapple of politeness!


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