Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the… — Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Copy Share Image
“Be a person that others will look for your posts daily because they know you will encourage them. Be the positive one… — John Patrick Hickey Copy Share Image
“We have rules One-Ear." The man smiled faintly at Mrs. Francis. "Ladies are not to be hacked apart with swords. It reflects… — Sean Cullen Copy Share Image
I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we… — Doug Davidson Copy Share Image
My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge… — Xaviera Hollander Copy Share Image
“Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what… — Sarah-Kate Lynch Copy Share Image
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro;… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy.… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
YES - I have good manners. YES - I show others respect YES - I help a stranger in need. I do… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary… — William John Wills Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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