Now I can pass it on to my fellow American DA fans.Mein Kompliment an ihren Blog Gnädige Lady Carnarvon.Download the Highclere Castle App, narrated by Jim Carter (Mr Carson) and explore the Castle as you’ve never seen it before.Explore our Community pages and follow the journey that Highclere Castle is making into today’s world. Bad manners drive me crazy, bad English and table manners.Manners make the man, woman and child. We now find that they are teaching their children, my grandchildren with those same manners. I wish we could get back the “Emily Post Era”.Thank you for sharing. Mine was at the hands of the nuns who taught me but I think it made me a better more rounded person. Although I inherited other things from my grandparents and parents, the most precious of them is the lesson on how to be a gracious person. These people believe that whether or not we say ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ is not a deep question about how good we are.However, for other people, how polite and civilized we are in our dealings with others does indicate something about how good a person we are. We were taught manner and respect and also that in a difficult situation ask yourself “what would the Queen do”. It is fascinating to know that the original foundation lies beneath the castle!I have some recent sketches as in for the last 250 years which are two incarnations of the home.
They are, quite literally, what ‘make’ us human.Other interpretations of this proverb are based on the assumption that the word ‘make’ here means something more akin to ‘put the finishing touches on’. I like a gentleman, even if I’m an independant woman. Were you born in a barn? The earliest reference BookBrowse could find was in the work of William Horman who was headmaster of Eton and then Winchester in the late 15th century.
Take Care.Thank you for sharing this history. I was sitting with my daughter in an old Washington, DC hotel yesterday having afternoon tea. Perfekte Manieren und Benehmen sollten heutzutage eine Selbstverständlichkeit sein.
It was wonderful!What a wonderful post today, Lady Carnarvon.
If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” “Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.” My mother always reminded my brothers and I to always use our manners. Thanks again for your wonderful spirit and love of the human experience.Your grandfather, my grandfather too. I always thank my parents and grandparents for insisting that we have good manners. Others just go with the flow.For all the technology of today we are still the same people, wanted to be liked, wanting to have friends or do things and respect and respect and manners help -I thinkYou’re grandfather reminds me so much of mine. Making her ask all over again. Whilst on the topic of speech, when my cousins, my brother and I were very young children, my maternal grandfather would remind us when going out somewhere important “to only speak when you are spoken to” and the (now somewhat dated) “children are to be seen, not heard.” Having said that, I can not recall even just one instance of him excluding us from any of his conversations. One thing I recall one of my elders saying about manners was that they are “like oil on a squeaky wheel, they ease the rub and reduce the wear and tear.”Karine and I have such pleasure creating these books – she is amazing for her kindness.. and a special sister to me Manners are so refreshing….you reminded me March 11 today is my nephews birthday. In the 14th century, William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, founded two great educational institutions —New College, Oxford, and the great public school at Winchester. It’s a perfect in-between time, between winter and spring, for us to be a little more academic before we all leap into spring, new lambs, flowers blooming.Thank you and the lambing will I think busy in the next two weeks!Oh how I long for society today to know what good manners mean. RSVPs.
To me, good manners is another way of saying one behaves graciously.
T he old proverb, ‘Manners maketh man’ has an interesting history and meaning. One takes good manners with them through out life and I applaud all of those who try to ensure proper behavior for our future generations. Quite a learned discussion of the literature and men. We have traveled very extensively in Europe (never England) with our children when they were younger and people always commented on their manners. Thank you for sharing your life with us . Four daughters to be exact. The proverb could be interpreted to mean that good manners or social codes of conduct shape our personalities, and that habitually acting in a certain way starts to mold and shape our personality. It is painful to see those who do not have good manners not only at the table but as a guest in someone’s home or in public. Manners Maketh Man: Values, Virtue, Courtesy, and Decorum ... and what C.S. Thank you for this post. Thank you for providing this for us, Lady Carnarvon. For example, not having the bottle lean on the glass when pouring (saves spills) not reaching across someone, etc and generally not making people justify themselves or feel embarrassed. She insisted on good manners too and would not accept anything “below standard”.