In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.
- Virginia Graham

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
- Unknown

I don’t think you want too much sincerity in society.  It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.
- Gabirol

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

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
- Fred Astaire