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#manners

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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.


Fred Astaire


#face #good #good manners #hardest #job

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.


Colley Cibber


#compass #good #good manners #manners #screw

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.


Thomas Hardy


#course #custom #manners #morals #own

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.


Tim Gunn


#manners #art

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.


Craig Ferguson


#manners #paris #business

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.


Karl Lagerfeld


#chanel #creativity #designer #elegance #immorality

The smaller the dinner table, the better the side conversation: you can gossip about the guests without fearing whether you will be overheard. It just isn't good table manners to exclude someone from their own ridicule. That's why the juiciest side conversations occur at a table for one.


Bauvard


#dinner #funny #gossip #humor #table-manners

The law and a thin veil of insincerity, all that prevents me from strangling an etiquette coach.


Bauvard


#funny #humor #law #manners #politeness

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.


Raymond Chandler


#humor #manners #philip-marlowe #put-downs #raymond-chandler

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#politeness #rudeness #life






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