My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.
William Saroyan
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Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.
Edmund Burke
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
George Bernard Shaw
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