Keyword: Manners

Manners: Noises you don’t make when eating soup.

Good Breeding: That quality that enables a person to wait in well-mannered silence while the loudmouth gets the service.

Brat: A child who displays his pest manners.

Etiquette: Learning to yawn with your mouth closed.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else; the same with good manners.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

(1880 – ?) American author

Etiquette: The noise you don’t make while eating soup.

The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

There is no substitute for good manners… except, perhaps, fast reflexes.

Marge, you know it's rude to talk when my mouth is full.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

(1941 – ) novelist

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

(1898 – 1971) American humorist

There is no substitute for good manners… except, perhaps, fast reflexes.