The world of examples.
" The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. "
Oscar Wilde
" Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. "
Lawrence Stern
" It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude.
To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility,
is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire.
For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
" Life is too short, but there is always enough time for courtesy. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
" A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
" Good manners are not merely snobbish ornaments,
as Mrs Lippett's regime appeared to believe.
They mean self-discipline and thought for others, and my children have got to learn them. "
Jean Webster
" 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 11, 1779
" Fine manners and dignity are taught by the heart, and not the dancing master. "
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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