I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.

- Ann-Margret

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

- Colum McCann

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

- Bryan Cranston

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

- Bill Nighy

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

- Bryant H. McGill

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.

- Bono

I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

- Billy Connolly

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

- Benjamin Franklin

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

- Amy Vanderbilt

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.

- Adriana Lima

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

- Alfred P. Sloan

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

- Apollonius of Tyana

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

- Anna Camp

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

- Anthony Trollope

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

- Algernon Sidney

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

- Alexander McCall Smith

I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

- Andy Garcia

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

- Amy Heckerling

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

- Alexander Pope