Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

Under an oak, in stormy weather, I joined this rogue and whore together; And none but he who rules the thunder Can put this rogue and whore asunder.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest. Give him always of the prime, And but little at a time. Carve to all but jus…

Manners: 'Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.'

Good-breeding, or true politeness, is the art of showing men by external signs the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by goo…

Always look people in the face when addressing them, and generally when they address you.