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.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

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.

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.

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

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

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

The society of women is the element of good manners.