#manners

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#display #fellow #fellow creatures #like #love

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#equality #manners #equality

I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#funny #miss-manners #polyamory #sex #funny

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#guests #hospitality #hosts #manners #home

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#manners #manners

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#giving-others-space #love #manners #self-care #self-confidence

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. ↗

— Judith Martin

#courtesy #manners #miss-manners #age

There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are ↗

— The Town and Country Magazine. vol.

#manners #men #society #wit #men

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#manners #hurt

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#wit #wrong