#manner

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable. ↗

— Fannie Flagg

#life #manners #truth #life

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. ↗

— Judith Martin

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Etiquette is the fine tunning of education ↗

— Nadine Daher

#business-etiquette #education #etiquette #kids #manners

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#wit #wrong

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner. ↗

— Hans Bender

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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

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The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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

— Bennett Cerf

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I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

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