3 Jonathan Swift Quotes on Etiquette

Jonathan Swift quotes on etiquette

10. And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid:

33. 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.

37. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.