Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners
Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment.
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word punctilious (attentive to formality or etiquette) comes from th...
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time except the Serbian war. Everything that the idle crowd usually does to kill time, it now did for the benefit of t...
You should marry me, he said. I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.
I suggest he starts introducing himself as "Lessman"; he is classless, tactless, and mannerless.
Charlestonians had a particularly vicious and cunning game, developed after the War. They treated outsiders with so much graciousness and consideration that their politeness became a weapon. 'Visitors...
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He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and...
[I]t's not enough to be right. I think you have to be generous. It's not enough to be logical. You have to be virtuous...[Y]our demeanor will carry your message, perhaps, even further than your words...
Your mood shouldn't dictate your manners.
A thousand little civilities create tenderness in time.
She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin...
Gentlemen are a dying breed.Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.
Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.
What once were vices are now manners.
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