#manner

OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#christian-living #etiquette #etiquette-and-attitude #manners #parenting

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves. ↗

— Jean de La Bruyère

#character #etiquette #manners #attitude

A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. ↗

— Lisa Kirk

#etiquette-and-attitude #manners #attitude

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#etiquette-and-attitude #grace #manners #parenting #perfection

You cannot escape that you are a woman,” she began. “I wish I could,” Firekeeper muttered, but Elise continued as if she hadn’t heard. “Since you cannot, you cannot escape the expectations that our society and our class places upon women.” “Why?” Firekeeper said querulously. “...Consider,” she offered, “what you told me about learning to see at night so that you could hunt with the wolves. Learning to wear a gown, to walk gracefully, to eat politely…” “I do that!” “You’re learning,” Elise admitted, “but don’t change the subject. All of these are ways of learning to see in the dark.” “Maybe,” Firekeeper said, her tone unconvinced. “Can you climb a tree?” “Yes.” “Swim?” “Yes!” This second affirmative was almost indignant. “And these skills let you go places that you could not go without them.” Stubborn silence. Elise pressed her point. “Why do you like knowing how to shoot a bow?” “It lets me kill farther,” came the answer, almost in a growl. “And using a sword does the same?” “Yes.” “Let me tell you, Firekeeper, knowing a woman’s arts can keep you alive, let you invade private sanctums, even help you to subdue your enemies. If you don’t know those arts, others who do will always have an advantage over you.” “All this from wearing a gown that tangles your feet? ↗

— Jane Lindskold

#human-society #manners #wolf #art

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#manner #relation #single #dating

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#equality #manners #equality

I’ll wait until your mouth is full of food before I ask you a question. That’s just the kind of gentleman I am.
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— Jarod Kintz

#gentleman #manners #mouth #polite #question

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#food #humor #inspirational #manners #food

Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it. ↗

— T.A. Miles

#food #manners #nathaine-fannael #siblings #food