A man's good breeding is the best security against another's bad manners.
-- Chesterfield
-- Chesterfield
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- All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly things;
but yet a man of the world should know them. They are... - The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant, the philosopher a
cynic,
the soldier a brute, and every man disagreeable. ... - Good manners and bad breath will get ya nowhere
(Elvis... - The test of good manners is to be patient with the
bad ones. Ibn... - Compliments of congratulations are always kindly taken,
and cost nothing but pen, ink, and paper. I consider... - For a man to pretend to understand women is bad manners;
for him really to understand them is bad morals. ... - Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love... - Good manners are the settled medium of social, as
specie is of commercial,
life; returns are equally expected for both. -- Lord... - I'm a good man for a bad
woman...
From the same category:
- If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist,
he'll get rich or famous or both... - gcc --
What C was meant to be... - Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied
with every thing that nature can demand,
than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.... - SMILEY
;
( 'that makes me so mad that if I ever see you I'll... - The year is 2258.
The name of the place is Babylon 5...
