#manners

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. ↗

— John Ruskin

#deformity #ever #heart #kind #manners

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#bad manners #company #example #flatter #flattery

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#best #bred #converse #easy #fewest

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#good manners #indistinguishable #japanese #made #manners

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids. ↗

— Oliver Hudson

#grew #had #i #katie #kids

Handsome is as handsome does ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#handsomeness #manners #behavior

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Should you tell your mother something if it is important when she is talking to company? I am six. GENTLE READER: Yes, you should (after saying "Excuse me"). Here are some of the things that are important to tell your mother, even though she is talking to company: "Mommy, the kitchen is full of smoke." "Daddy's calling from Tokyo." "Kristen fell out of her crib and I can't put her back." "There's a policeman at the door and he says he wants to talk to you." "I was just reaching for my ball, and the goldfish bowl fell over." Now, here are some things that are not important, so they can wait until your mother's company has gone home: "Mommy, I'm tired of playing blocks. What do I do now?" "The ice-cream truck is coming down the street." "Can I give Kristen the rest of my applesauce?" "I can't find my crayons." "When are we going to have lunch? I'm hungry. ↗

— Judith Martin

#home

Speak politely to an enraged dragon. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#dragons #manners #political

O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#change

Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational