“ That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself. ”
- Barbara Hall- Copy
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“ Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. ”
- Clarence Thomas- Copy
- 1.5K
“ We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.2K
“ There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 2.4K
“ One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 944
“ Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself. ”
- L. M. Montgomery- Copy
- 3K
“ To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. ”
- Lawrence Sterne- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people. ”
- Lillian Eichler Watson- Copy
- 387
“ If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation. ”
- Mena Trott- Copy
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“ Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. ”
- Stanley Walker- Copy
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“ Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ”
- Will Cuppy- Copy
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“ He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
- 79
“ Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. ”
- Emily Post- Copy
- 219
“ Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ”
- Amy Vanderbilt- Copy
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“ Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ”
- Oliver Herford- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself. ”
- L. M. Montgomery- Copy
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“ My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 1.3K
“ No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy. ”
- Sir Lawrence Olivier- Copy
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“ Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say "Excuse me". ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. ”
- Edward F. Halifax- Copy
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