Ralph Waldo Emerson Manners Quotations

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.