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Cartoon in Punch magazine: 28 July 1920. Politeness is the practical application of good manners or etiquette so as not to offend others and to put them at ease. It is a culturally defined phenomenon, and therefore what is considered polite in one culture can sometimes be quite rude or simply eccentric in another cultural context.
This isn’t actually good manners, even though many think of it as being fancy! Gottsman calls it “affected,” explaining it looks like you are trying too hard to call attention to your own ...
In the retail branch of commerce, the saying "the customer is always right" summarises the profit-orientation of good manners, between the buyer and the seller of goods and services: There are always two sides to the case, of course, and it is a credit to good manners that there is scarcely ever any friction in stores and shops of the first class.
An illustration from "Breach of Promise" showing Spanish John and Harry the Horse The English comedy writer Frank Muir comments [ 27 ] that Runyon's plots were, in the manner of O. Henry , neatly constructed with professionally wrought endings, but their distinction lay in the manner of their telling, as the author invented a peculiar argot for ...
Both manners and morality deal with whether a thing is morally good or bad, but at different levels. Unlike morality, which, for example, condemns murder as a violation of a person, manners primarily concerns itself with violations of human dignity , rather than the person's health or property. [ 3 ]
Early North American etiquette books claimed that the manners and customs of the "Best Society" could be imitated by all, [2] although some authors lamented that the lower classes, meaning those "whose experience in life has been a hardening process", in fact treated the rules of etiquette with "contempt and ... a sneer". [3]
The wardrobe of The Late John Morgan, arbiter of taste and modern manners was put up for auction on 14 November 2000 at Christie's London, South Kensington, "with the hope that money will be raised to name a seat in his memory at the Royal Opera House." This unique sale collected around £37,000.
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