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.

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

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

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.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

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.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.