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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

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

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

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

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

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

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

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.

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