#manners

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. ↗

— Horace Mann

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Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. ↗

— John McGahern

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

— Bryant H. McGill

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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

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. ↗

— John Ruskin

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

— Paul Theroux

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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

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