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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Jean Paul Richter
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
Aristotle
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
Marshall McLuhan
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The greater person is one of courtesy.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Jean de la Bruyere
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Cesare Pavese
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Percy Wynham Lewis
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.
Richard D. Rosen
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
Fran Tarkenton
Manners are love in a cool climate.
Quentin Crisp
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and ;him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
Erastus Wiman
Manners are happy ways of doing things.
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Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
To be a successful hostess, when guest arrive say, At last! and when they leave say, So soon!
Politeness is benevolence in small things.
