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Manners: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto III. St. 41.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but it will never be worn, nor shine, if it is not polished.— CHESTERFIELD — Letters. July 1, 1748.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.— COWPER — Conversation. L. 193.

Nobody ought to have been able to resist her coaxing manner; and nobody had any business to try. Yet she never seemed to know it was her manner at all. That was the best of it.— DICKENS — Martin Chuzzlewit. Vol. II. Ch. XIV.

Quæ fuerant vitia mores sunt. What once were vices, are now the manners of the day.— SENECA — Epistolæ Ad Lucilium.