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Most women find a man with good manners sexy. Candice Swanepoel

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

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

Margaret Walker

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Katie Couric

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

Emily Post

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

Nancy Friday

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

Robert Grosseteste

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

Leon Krier

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Colley Cibber

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

Loretta Young

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Wendell Willkie

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Bennett Cerf

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

Fred Astaire

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Clarence Thomas

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Russell Brand

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Bryant H. McGill

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

Terry Wogan

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

Paul Johnson

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Robert MacNeil

Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

Isaac Hanson

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Paul Theroux

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

Rita Mae Brown

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

Candice Swanepoel

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Lillian Gish

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Roger Moore

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

Kate Reardon

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Mignon McLaughlin

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Benjamin Banneker

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

Bill Nighy

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Amy Vanderbilt

One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still alive, I would congratulate her.

Molly Ivins

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.

David Rakoff