Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
Manners are more important than laws. Upon them, in great measure, the laws depend.
Make 2012 the year that you were nice.. because people don't like not nice people.. so be nice.. all the time!
You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.
There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.
Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.
Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.
I can be nice - I don't need to be rude for no reason.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.
Is there decency left in American politics?
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
Civility cost nothing.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults.
Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.
T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.
It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.
One of the damnable unhappy conditions of life is sometimes Government has to make people be civil.
