Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.