Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

Manners are the ornament of action.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner table, and walking down the street--we are confronted with choices on how to treat people nearly every waking moment. Over time these choices define who we are and whether we have a lot of friends and allies or none.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Manners form the great charm of women.