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.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

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

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

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

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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.

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.