Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

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

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

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at read more

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the read more

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is read more

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.