#manners

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

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

#morality #morals #respect #respect

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

— Oscar Wilde

#wit #wrong

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

— Bennett Cerf

#good #good manners #make #manners #noise

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. ↗

— Richard Whately

#always #good #make #manners #perfection

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. ↗

— Richard Whately

#ever #given #greatest #influence #man

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. ↗