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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.