The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: 'No room! No room!' they cried out when they saw Alice coming. 'There's of room!' said Alice indignantly, and s...
Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
I'm making a listI'm making a list of things I must sayFor politeness,And goodness and kindness and gentlenessSweetness and rightness:HelloPardon meHow are you?Excuse meBless youMay I?Thank youGoodbye...
The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.
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.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes wel...
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
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 -...
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of f...
Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.
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