#manner

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#acts #armed #back #back up #good

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#ettiquette #manners #sympathy #death

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#extraordinary #fortunate #here #manner #recognized

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#guests #hospitality #hosts #manners #home

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#giving-others-space #love #manners #self-care #self-confidence

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

#courtesy #manners #miss-manners #age

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot... ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#society #society

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

— Oscar Wilde

#wit #wrong

Being classy is my teenage rebellion. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#convention #fashion #manners #rebellion #teenagers