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...
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing.
Handsome is as handsome does
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.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull no one would read them.
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
Psychology of small things rules.
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 -...
Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.
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...
Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.
It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .
He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.