"“Oh Tigger, where are your manners?”

“I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.”"
— A.A. Milne

"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot..."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"I was raised right....to talk about people behind their backs....it's called manners. "
— Kathy Griffin

"I'm making a list
I'm making a list of things I must say
For politeness,
And goodness and kindness and gentleness
Sweetness and rightness:
Hello
Pardon me
How are you?
Excuse me
Bless you
May I?
Thank you
Goodbye
If you know some that I've forgot,
Please stick them in you eye!
"
— Shel Silverstein

"Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner."
— Georgette Heyer (April Lady)

"It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy."
— Arthur Schopenhauer (The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims)

"The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly."
— Kahil Gibran

"Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
"
— Amy Vanderbilt

"A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat."
— P.J. O'Rourke (Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People)

"It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world."
— Alison Croggon

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
— Emily Post

"Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
"
— Laurence Sterne

"Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question."
— Tina Brown

"Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable."
— Ellen Goodman

"A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion
That you are changing sadly your dominion
I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased,
For men have none at all, or bad at least;
And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many
The "good old times" were far the worst of any,
Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle
Yet still I think these worst a little.

I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?-
I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways -
I've been a thinking, whether it were best
To Take things seriously, Or all in jest"
— Edgar Allan Poe (Poe: Poetry, Tales, and Selected Essays)

"Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.
"
— Judith Martin

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
— Emily Post

"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable."
— Fannie Flagg (Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!: A Novel)