Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.

Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

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.