Manners. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Manners


Our country manners give our betters way. Shakespeare.—King John, Act I. Scene 1. (The Bastard to Queen Elinor.)	1
Manners make the man. Motto of William of Wykeham.	2
Education makes the man. Cawthorne.—Birth and Education of Genius.	3
The attentive eyes, That saw the manners in the face. Dr. Johnson.—Epitaph for Hogarth.	4
Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man. Gay.—Fable XIV. Part 2.	5
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 203.	6
Meantime intent the fairest plan to find, To form the manners and improve the mind. Fenton.—Epi. to Lambard.	7
Evil habits soil a fine dress more than mud; good manners, by their deeds, easily set off a lowly garb. Riley’s Plautus, The Pœnulus, Act I. Scene 2; The Mostellaria, Act I. Scene 3.	8
Evil communications corrupt good manners. St. Paul.—1 Corinthians, Chap. xv. Ver. 33; Menander. Ex Thaide, p. 78. (Dr. Ramage.)	9