Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace,… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people,… — Jerome Kern Copy Share Image
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able… — Ant Middleton Copy Share Image
Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
I'm a child of the 50s. I was expected to have table manners. There needs to be some expectations for behavior. I'm… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
You talk to people who serve you the food the same way you talk to the people you eat the food with.… — Claudia Shear Copy Share Image
If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy;… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Remember To Treat People Like Its The Last Time…You Are Going To See Them Because It Might Be Your Last Day Or… — Out Spoken Copy Share Image
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I got more than I bargained for with him, too. Much more. I know he’s completely different now, but he was really… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
My parents were relaxed, but very strict on manners. They encouraged us to follow our instincts and desires, so they were quite… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
