Beyond Good Manners Quotes

“The child who has been taught to love the process of growing, learning and taking on new challenges and experiences can face life with confidence and poise. The”
― Tara Woods Turner, Beyond Good Manners: How to Raise a Sophisticated Child

“Etiquette is demonstrated by the concern for the comfort of others in a social setting. A”
― Tara Woods Turner, Beyond Good Manners: How to Raise a Sophisticated Child

“For example, the dinner knife was invented by an English aristocrat who surmised that a blunted knife devoted solely to dining would cut down (no pun intended) on dangerous misunderstandings between dinner guests. At that time in history few men traveled without a dagger and it was common to use it to cut one's meat at meals. Pointing a dagger at another, however, was taken as an insult and a challenge and the results were often catastrophic. The invention of the dinner knife changed the way people interacted with one another at table - etiquette followed form which followed function.”
― Tara Woods Turner, Beyond Good Manners: How to Raise a Sophisticated Child