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I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

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

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

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

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show... I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.