“The idea of having pride, the idea of manners, I think is very, very important. There's just too little of it in the world and I think there are certain dignities in life to which we should all aspire.”
Bill Bixby
“Bad manners make a journalist.”
Oscar Wilde
“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
Albert Einstein
“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world”
Jonathan Swift
“If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help”
Mark Twain
“The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.”
Dean Acheson