#manners

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing! ↗

— Selena Gomez

#admit #barney #camera #doing #embarrassed

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#ettiquette #manners #sympathy #death

College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both--while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both. ↗

— Judith Martin

#gender-roles #miss-manners #equality

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#belong #enforcing #good #good manners #justified

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#courtesy #manners #politeness #art

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#bestow #careful #children #concern #doing

I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me’. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #manners #funny

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. ↗

— Horace Mann

#into #manners #mature #morals #rapidly

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#else #essential #everywhere #good #good manners

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. ↗