You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little m...
Some night soon, I'll sneak back in here and we can eat chocolates until we vomit.We're such refined, genteel ladies.Please, Lysandra said, waving a manicured hand, you and I are nothing but wild beas...
I didn't ask to see you. You sent for me. I don't mind your ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a Scotch bottle. I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasur...
Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.-You will not find it.-Why am I...
It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!
A thousand little civilities create tenderness in time.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing.
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
When a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate -...
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
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 chitch...
He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.
Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.
Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull no one would read them.