Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over read more

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the read more

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.