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• The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family… — Judith Martin
• I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners — Hiroko Sakai
• Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time. — P.J. O'Rourke
• The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident… — Philip Roth
• On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. — George Mikes
• I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. — Evelyn Waugh
• What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time,… — Georges Perec
• They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh… — Terry Pratchett
• GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true… — Judith Martin
• Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table… — Suzanne Collins
• Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs,… — Brian Jacques
• Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were… — Jasper Fforde

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