Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it improperly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

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

Good manners are like traffic rules for society.

A gentleman always gets out of his bath before peeing.

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.