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  • I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.

    Dog   Eye   Play  
    "Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.
  • Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

    Mean   Speech   Etiquette  
    Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume
  • If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

  • The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

    Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.61, Xist Publishing
  • The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

  • Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

  • People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.

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

    Mean   People   Manners  
    David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”
  • There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.

    Law   Letters   Etiquette  
  • The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

  • In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

    Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.971, Race Point Pub
  • Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

  • There were a lot of people shouting out. I know it's not proper tennis etiquette, but this is the first time I've ever played here that the crowd has been behind me like that. Today I felt American, you know, for the first time at the U.S. Open. So I've waited my whole career to have this moment and here it is. ... It was great. It was awesome. It was like winning gold.

  • As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

  • The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

    Book   Slim   Volume  
    Paul Theroux (2006). “The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.

  • If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

    Witty   Dazzle   Baffled  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

    Reader's Digest, Volume 68, 1956.
  • If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.

  • Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

  • You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.

  • Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

    Kindness   Simple   Fancy  
  • Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

  • Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

    Positive   Men   Good Man  
  • One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

    Emotional   Ties   People  
    Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”
  • Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.

  • Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look,word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.

    Kings   Giving   Waiting  
    Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.268, OUP Oxford
  • England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.

    Country   Fall   Waiting  
  • In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

    Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.22, Macmillan
  • Some people like a harsh teacher. They feel the demands make them learn more quickly. Some like a gentle teacher because they feel that makes them learn more quickly.

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