Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd;

Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd;

The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd,

And ease of heart her every look convey'd.

George Crabbe (1754-1832): The Parish Register. Part ii. Marriages.

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.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 13.

Of manners gentle, of affections mild;

In wit a man, simplicity a child.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Epitaph on Gay.

I would not enter on my list of friends

(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense,

Yet wanting sensibility) the man

Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 560.

Her manners had not that repose

Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Stanza 5.

That saw the manners in the face.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Lines on the Death of Hogarth.

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne;

For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed

As by his manners.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Faerie Queene. Book vi. Canto iii. St. 1.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues

We write in water.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.

The mildest manners, and the gentlest heart.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 756.

Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes,

Tenets with books, and principles with times.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 172.

The mildest manners with the bravest mind.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 963.