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.

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.

Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

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

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

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no read more

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

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.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and read more

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.