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Manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment
are all the blackest of black lies.

If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.

Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

Who does not dislike a "boneless" hand extended as though it were a spray of sea-weed, or a miniature boiled pudding?

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise
but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment
no matter what happens.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

The best ingredients for likeableness are a happy expression of countenance, an unaffected manner, and a sympathetic attitude.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.