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CLASSICAL
Ideal conversation must...
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings...
The attributes of...
The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and...
To do exactly...
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
Source: Etiquette,...
Nothing is less...
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is...
Manners are a...
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no...
We must learn...
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are...
Good manners have...
Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit...
Ceremony is-really a...
Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social...
[I am] a...
[I am] a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what...
One face to...
One face to the world, another at home makes for misery.
Source: In The New...
Virtuous people are...
Virtuous people are simply those who have. . . not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state,...
The first essential...
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the...
All my life...
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.
Source: In The...
Most human beings...
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional...
I had learned...
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same...
I wasn't concerned...
I wasn't concerned about the hardships, because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and...
Go within every...
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle...
I always believed...
I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
If you dance,...
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
Source:...
We weren't pushing...
We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.
Source: In American...