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A Word or Two on Manners
by Sarah E. Kidder
In teaching etiquette workshops, I often begin by creating a common vocabulary for the class. Using word associations, synonyms and quotations is a nice way to begin the process. A few of the most popular and effective from my workshops:
| Acceptable |
Appropriate |
Attentive |
Ceremonial |
Chivalrous |
Civilized |
Considerate |
| Courtesy |
Customs |
Courteous |
Dutiful |
Elegant |
Fitting |
Formal |
| Friendly |
Genteel |
Good |
Gracious |
Honest |
Hospitable |
Humble |
| Manners |
Modest |
Polite |
Regard |
Refined |
Respectable |
Respectful |
| Sociable |
Suitable |
Thoughtful |
Tradition |
Well-bred |
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- Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. --Clarence Thomas
- Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. --Eric Hoffer
- 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. –-Emily Post
- Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people. --Lillian Eichler Watson
- Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. --Spanish Proverb
- Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. --Will Rogers
- When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. --Anais Nin
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. --Mark Twain
- Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. -- Stanley Walker
- Manners maketh man --Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford
- Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. --Chinese proverb
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. --Samuel Johnson
- Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. --Martin Fraquhar Tupper
- Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. --Franklin P. Jones
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