Samuel Johnson Manners Quotations

Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and, therefore, few only can judge how nearly they are copied.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.