On utilitarian as well as social principles, we should try to instruct our children in good manners; for whether we wish them to succeed in the world, or to adorn society, the point is equally important.
It is a gross breach of good manners to omit the gentleman from any invitation in which his fiancee is included, and there are not many young ladies who would consent to accept such an invitation.
Would it be good manners to take a second helping of anything if you wanted to VERY much?
But it isn't good manners to tell your company what you are going to give them to eat, so I won't tell you what she said we could have to drink.
Of the former class, a certain few set themselves up as the arbiters of good manners; they decide what shall be called "good form," and what is not allowable.
Now, neither Wagner nor Muir would justify any advocacy on my part of neglect of true consideration, courtesy, or good manners.
The chief end of "good manners" is to oil the wheels of social converse.
No one can fully estimate how great a factor in life is the possession of good manners, or timely thoughtfulness with human sympathy behind it.
Of course, there is a philosophy of good manners--too much of it, eh?
I assure you, I should not think so; and I take myself to be as much tied down by a certain degree of good manners to you, as by other degrees of them to other people.
Good manners are, to particular societies, what good morals are to society in general; their cement and their security.
It isn't lengthy advice which is needed on this subject, since a man commissioned is considered to have graduated from at least the kindergarten of good manners.
A painstaking observation of the courtesies due to ranks of other services is more than a sign of good manners; it indicates a recognition of the interdependence of the services upon one another.
The general rules governing saluting are based on common sense, good manners, and the customs of the times.
Colleoni's court, like that of Urbino, was a model of good manners.
He spent his youth at Mantua, in that famous school of Vittorino da Feltre, where the sons and daughters of the first Italian nobility received a model education in humanities, good manners, and gentle physical accomplishments.
We have been tempted to call Walnut "the Street of the Little Tailors," for so many shops have they from Seventh street to Broad that one comes quickly to know why Philadelphia men are as immaculate to clothes as to good manners.
Those younger negroes who drive the clumsy two-wheeled carts in town and out over the rough-paved streets have learned no good manners.
I know not any thing more pernicious to good Manners, than the giving fair Names to foul Actions; for this confounds Vice and Virtue, and takes off that natural Horrour we have to Evil.
In short, If I meet with any thing in City, Court, or Country, that shocks Modesty or good Manners, I shall use my utmost Endeavours to make an Example of it.
For one's own peace of mind, one should learn the art of good manners.
Good manners are a necessary equipment of both men and women.
The cultivation of good manners is a duty; somebody has said that "the true spirit of good manners is so nearly allied to that of good morals that they seem almost inseparable.
It is the expression of good manners, andgood manners have been rightly called the minor morals.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
Der Umgang mit Frauen ist das Element guter Sitten=--The society of women is the nursery of good manners.
The atmosphere of good manners may be as invisible as the air about us; but we know when we are breathing it.
But whatever the fickle fashion of the hour may be, it is important to enforce the truth that the spirit of words and deeds is the essence of good manners.
For Della Casa, however, the real foundation of good manners is to be found in the desire to please.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good manners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
