#manners

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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

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.


Robert Rainy


#celibacy #christian #christian life #enjoyments #fasting

A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.


P.J. O'Rourke


#humor #manners #humor

What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.


Georges Perec


#manners

I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!


Shel Silverstein


#manners #poems #humor

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.


Catherynne M. Valente


#manners #change

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

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.


Tim Burton


#gluttony #humor #manners #humor

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.


Fred Astaire


#face #good #good manners #hardest #job