I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me.
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
I'm a big believer in manners and respect: that one should never do to another what you wouldn't wish for yourself.
Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be an evangelist with it.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.
