Conveying Quote by Judith Martin

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners have been somewhatcynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The elegance of etiquette is a timeless expression of class which transcends social status, demographics, educational level, and ethnicity. Good manners say more about…

— Susan C. Young

Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress

— Lord Byron

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the…

— Judith Martin

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality…

— Emily Post

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but…

— Millicent Fenwick

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to…

— Judith Martin

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

— Judith Martin

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past…

— Henry David Thoreau

People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them;…

— Judith Martin