To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
Manners consist in pretending that we think as well of others as of ourselves.
Manners are necessary because, as a rule, there is a pretence; when our good opinion of others is genuine, manners look after themselves.
