Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit read more

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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.