"Fine manners need the support of fine manners…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. — Walter Benjamin
• Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I… — Alistair Cooke
• The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either… — Brooks Atkinson
• Survival has its own etiquette. — Janet Morris
• Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a… — Jim Harrison
• Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by… — George Bernard Shaw
• Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most… — Ambrose Bierce
• In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the… — Virginia Graham
• Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette. — Judith Martin

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