#manners

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#appearance #certainly #contains #ever #i

I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show... I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing! ↗

— Selena Gomez

#admit #barney #camera #doing #embarrassed

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bodies #feelings #forms #garments #grace

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#known #manners #other #persian #social

She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel any worse than she did. How many times had she eaten one of those treats, standing by herself in the kitchen, rather than let it be thrown away. When nobody eats the last chile on the plate, it's usually because none of them wants to look like a glutton, so even though they'd really like to devour it, they don't have the nerve to take it. It was as if they were rejecting that stuffed pepper, which contains every imaginable flavor; sweet as candied citron, juicy as pomegranate, with the bit of pepper and the subtlety of walnuts, that marvelous chile in the walnut sauce. Within it lies the secret of love, but it will never be penetrated, and all because it wouldn't feel proper. ↗

— Laura Esquivel

#manners #food

Beware of a man with manners. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#man #manners

A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife. ↗

— Ruth Reichl

#food #history #table-manners #food

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#everything #except #first #form #grow

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

#exhibit #feel #good #good manners #make

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#being #cliches #i #i think #like