She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

-Alcott, Louisa May
  Little Women, pt.2, ch.34.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

-Ascham, Roger
  The Schoolmaster, bk.2.

Mr Wickham isblessedwith suchhappymanners asmay ensure his making friendsöwhether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

-Austen,Jane
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.18.

Leave off first for manners'sake; and be not unsatiable, lest thou offend.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 31:17.

Evil communications corrupt good manners.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:33.

God, whoat sundry times and indiversmannersspake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews1:1^3.

   Then let Ausonia, skilled in every art To soften manners, but corrupt the heart, Pour her exotic follies o'er the town, To sanctionVice, and hunt Decorum down.

-Rochdale
  Engish Bards and Scotch Reviewers, l.618^21.

'Twonations; betweenwhomthere isnointercourseand no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed bya different breeding, are fed by a different 276 food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.' 'You speak ofö'said Egremont, hesitatingly.'THE RICH ANDTHE POOR.'

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Sybil, bk.2, ch.5.

[Chaucer] must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his CanterburyTales the various manners and humours of the whole English nation in his age.

-Dryden,John
  Fables  Ancient and Modern, preface,'In Praise of Chaucer'.

Grannie remarked that I might have the spirit of an Australian but I had by no means the manners of a lady.

-of Bin Bin
My Brilliant Career, ch.19.

   Much music marreth men's manners.

-Galen or  Claudius Galenus
Quoted in Roger  Ascham Toxophilus (1545).

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

-Jarrell, Randall
  Pictures from an Institution, pt.1, ch.4.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Of LordChesterfield's letters. Quotedin JamesBoswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

There's reason good, that you good laws should make: Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.

-Jonson, Ben
  Epigrams,'To the Parliament'.

'Tis certain we have but very imperfect accounts of the manners and religion of these people; this part of the world being seldomvisited,but bymerchants, whomind little but their own affairs; or travellers, who make too short a stay to be able to report anything exactly of their own knowledge.

-Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ne¤  e Pierrepoint
c.1716  Of  Turkey. Collected in Lord Wharncliffe (ed)  The Letters and Works of Lady Mary  Wortley Montagu (1837).

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

-Munro, Alice ne¤  e Laidlaw
  The Progress of Love,'The Progress of Love'.

We said to the Chinese,'You have behaved very ill; we have had to teach you better manners; it has cost us something to do it, but we will send our bill in, and you must pay our charges.' That was done, and they have certainly profited by the lesson. They have become free traders too.

-Palmerston, HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount
  On the OpiumWars of1839^42. Election speech at Tiverton, Devon.

   Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.13^16.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because, as a nation, we don't dress well and we've no manners.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Valentine to Dolly and Philip Clandon. You Never CanTell, act1.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed, As by his manners.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.6, canto 3, stanza1.