5-Minute interview http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-5minute-interview-dita-von-teese-burlesque-artiste-424723.html (18 November 2006).
As quoted in Friends' Intelligencer Vol. XI (1854), p. 821
“That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.”
Dass soviel Ungezogenheit gut durch die Welt kommt, daran ist die Wohlerzogenheit schuld.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 72.
“There are bad manners everywhere, but an aristocracy is bad manners organized.”
The Point of View HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=FrQRAAAAYAAJ&q=%22there+are+bad+manners+everywhere+but+an+aristocracy+is+bad+manners+organized%22&pg=PA289#v=onepage (1882)
Poems and song lyrics
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 3
Context: Her hot black eyes looked mad. "I don't see what there is to be cagey about," she snapped. "And I don't like your manners."
"I'm not crazy about yours," I said. "I didn't ask to see you. You sent for me. I don't mind your ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a Scotch bottle. I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me."
“My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
Love's Last Shift, Act II, sc. i (1696).
“In cities people think that it is good manners not even to know who lives in the same building.”
In Städten glaubt man, es gehöre zum guten Tone, nicht einmal zu wissen, wer in demselben Hause wohnt.
Quoted in Der kleine Rechthaber: Wem gehört die Parklücke und andere juristische Überraschungen (2008) by Claus Murken, p. 79.
18 March 1751
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
