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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.

Margaret Walker

American poet and writer (1915-1998)

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one… If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Philip Pullman

English author

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

William Gilbert

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Randall Jarrell

poet, critic, novelist, essayist

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

Adelbert von Chamisso

German poet and botanist (1781-1838)

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.

Margaret Mead

American anthropologist (1901--1978)

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores – Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

Oliver Hudson

American actor

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

Marguerite Gardiner

You lose your manners when you are poor.

Lillian Hellman

American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984)

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

Henry Walter Bates

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