Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. — Emily Post

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you — not because they are nice, but because you are. — Anonymous

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. — Richard Whately

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. — Maurice Baring

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. — Bill Kelly

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. — Louis Nizer

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. — Eric Hoffer

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. — Sir John Vanbrugh

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Politeness is the art of choosing among one’s real thoughts. — Abel Stevens