Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth.

In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.