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"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
"Graciously Accepting a Compliment. How many times have you offered someone a sincere compliment only to have it thrown back in your face as if your assessment were wrong? How did you feel? Women are notorious for this social misstep and poor maneuver. Why do they do it? Rejecting a compliment makes the compliment-giver feel as though they should have said nothing."
"Using titles such as Mr., Mrs., Miss, Dr., etc. demonstrates respect. In previous generations, it was a social necessity and simply good manners. One would consider you rude and uncultured if you were so presumptuous as to go straight to a "first name basis. First names can imply an intimacy that does not exist and it may offend a new person until they know you better. Be wary of making assumptions."
"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself."
"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."
Explore more quotes by Stephen Bayley
"The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances."
"In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods."
"Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style."
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