Manners

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
- Clarence Thomas

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, 1022 - 1058

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
- William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- François Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778