“All the important roles shortly boiled down to one: remember your with other people; show some consideration.” MannersConsiderationCivility Book:Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door Source: Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
“Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.” PersonsImaginationManners Author:Lynne Truss
“The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.” PeopleIfsMeanPersonsProblemPoliticalAttentionDrawsLogicMarkAbsolutesDoctrineMannersAwkwardPerilPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessReactionariesOffence Author:Lynne Truss
“Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.” WayAttentionRootsOriginalsAccidentsDrawingInvisibleMannersEaseEtiquetteGood MannersPunctuationFormalityDrawing Attention Author:Lynne Truss
