Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Source: Quoted in: Andr? Gide, Journals 1889 --1949 (ed. by Justin O'Brien, 1951), entry for 1911.
-- Honore de Balzac, (May 20 1799-1850), French author; He developed the realistic novel describing French society in Comedie Humaine, 1841.