Let’s say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you’re in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you’ll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

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

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