Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.
They asked Lucman the fabulist From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
A thousand little civilities create tenderness in time.
The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to entersociety is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, nomatter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who failsto...
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
(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.
Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.
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...
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...
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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...
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.
She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel any worse than she did. How many times had she eaten one of those treats, standing by...
I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Men make laws women make manners.
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...