Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.