"Nobody ought to have been able to resist her coaxing manner; and nobody had any business to try. Yet she never seemed to know it was her manner at all. That was the best of it."

"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."

"Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt."

"The mildest manners with the bravest mind."

"My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle."

"We call it only pretty Fanny's way."

"Quæ fuerant vitia mores sunt."

"Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water."

"Ecrivez les injures sur le sable, Mais les bienfaits sur le marbre."

"Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd."

"Her manners had not that repose Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere."

"Ut homo est, ita morem geras."

"Courtesy will draw benevolence."

"High erected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy."

"That's too civil by half."

"I am the very pink of courtesy."

"The mirror of all courtesy."

"Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant Can tickle where she wounds!"

"The Retort Courteous."

"The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility."

"Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls, And courts of princes."

"In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit by ease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie."

"When the king was horsed thore, <Launcelot lookys he upon, How courtesy was in him more Than ever was in any mon."

"Their accents firm and loud in conversation, Their eyes and gestures eager, sharp and quick Showed them prepared on proper provocation To give the lie, pull noses, stab and kick! And for that very reason it is said They were so very courteous and well-bred."

"How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe."

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."

"A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can."