4 Quotes by Cecil B. Hartley

It is ill-bred to put on an air of weariness during a long speech from another person, and quite as rude to look at a watch, read a letter, flirt the leaves of a book, or in any other action show that you are tired of the speaker or his subject. In.

One of the first rules for a guide in polite conversation, is to avoid political or religious discussions in general society.

One of the first rules for a guide in polite conversation, is to avoid political or religious discussions in general society. Such discussions lead almost invariably to irritating differences of opinion, often to open quarrels, and a coolness of feeling which might have been avoided by dropping the distasteful subject as soon as marked differences of opinion arose.

Avoid gossip; in a woman it is detestable, but in a man it is utterly despicable.