You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

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.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over read more

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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