“Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!”
“Good company requires only birth, manners and education and, with regard to education, I'm afraid it is not very particular”
“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.""You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners (...)”
“Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.”
“Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.”