One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

— Josh Billings

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Margaret Walker

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

— Clarence Thomas

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

— Bryant H. McGill

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe