Here are some quotations on manners and politeness collected by class 1E.


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


" The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly."
                                       Kahil Gibran


"Etiquette is the fine tunning of education."
                                                                                                 Nadine Daher


"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
                        Katharine Fullerton Gerould


"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."
                                                                                         Arthur Ashe

"Manners are stronger than laws."
                                                                                   Thomas Carlyle

"Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."
                                                                                   Benjamin Disraeli
                                                                   
                                                                                                                                  
" Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you."
                                                                                   Elsie De Wolfe

"There is not a man of common sense who would not choose to be agreeable in company, and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are."
                              The Town and Country Magazine. vol.11, 1779


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


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


" A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudness; bad manners; lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot..."
                            Robert A. Heinlein


"Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners."
                                                                    Lord Chesterfield


"Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit."
                                                                 William Cowper