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Meat makes, and clothes shapes, but manners makes a man.
-Scottish Proverb
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Better good manners than good looks.
-Proverb
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Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentlemen.
-Proverb
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Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
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Civility costs nothing.
-Proverb
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
-Proverb
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
-Proverb
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To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
-Proverb
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Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
-Proverb
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The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.
-Alfred Adler
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Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
-W. H. Auden
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I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.
-Joy Baluch
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
-Honore de Balzac
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He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
-St. Basil
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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
-Stephen Bayley
Taste, pt. 1, Taste: The Story of an Idea, 1991
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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
-Francis Beaumont
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
-Walter Benjamin
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
-Ingmar Bergman
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Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy.
-Ambrose Bierce
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
-Otto von Bismarck
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
-Malcolm Bradbury
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
-Edmund Burke
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
-Albert Camus
La Chute, 1956
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Books about Manners
