The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So …

Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the le…

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

I am finding the inherent politeness of this place quite destabilising. Having come from a House where politeness is about as rare as an orderly queue at a Lon…

Manners: 'Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are othe…