Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one’s own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it’s done mainly for show, it’s still a start. It

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one’s own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it’s done mainly for show, it’s still a start.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect — you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

Doing things without giving the impression of suffering is a question of good manners.

without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one’s own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others.

It suffices for you to have good manners by giving up what you hate of others.

Truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.