Agnes H. Morton Quotes

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At times etiquette requires us to do things that are not agreeable to our selfish impulses, and to say things that are not literally true if our secret feelings were known. But there is no instance wherein the laws of etiquette need transgress the law of sincerity.

Agnes H. Morton
If tact consists in knowing what not to say, etiquette consists in knowing what not to do in the direction of manifesting our impulsives likes and dislikes.

Agnes H. Morton
Manners and morals are twin shoots from the same root.

Agnes H. Morton
Few things are more vulgar than the readiness to infer a flirtation from every case of marked mutual interest between a man and a woman.

Agnes H. Morton
It is not only more polite, but more self-respecting, to 'take offense' slowly.

Agnes H. Morton
Since censoriousness is a quality utterly antagonistic to good manners, it is well to reflect that, while etiquette lays down many laws, it also indulgently grants generous absolution.

Agnes H. Morton
Hospitality shares what it has. It does not attempt to give what it has not.

Agnes H. Morton
Etiquette requires that the association of men and women in refined circles shall be frank without freedom, friendly without familiarity.

Agnes H. Morton
Most parents feel keenly the embarrassment of having the infant misbehave... and they are apt to offer a tacit apology and a vague self-defense by sharply reprimanding the child in words that are meant to give the visitor the idea that they — the parents — never heard or saw such conduct before, and are now frozen with amazement.

Agnes H. Morton