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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.