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Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit read more
Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
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.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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.
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.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
