"Good manners is the art of making..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.”

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”

“Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.”

“The maxim of courts is that manner is power.”

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”

“There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.”

“Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.”

“Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.”

“None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.”