Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which…

— Andre Maurois

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

— Samuel Johnson

In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a…

— Olaf Stapledon

If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

— Francis Bacon

Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in…

— Joseph P. Bradley

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded…

— John Schneider

Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink…

— Rennie Ellis

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

— Emily Blackwell

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new…

— Joseph Addison

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take…

— W H Auden

“Society frowns upon candidness, except in privacy; good sense knows that it can always be abused; and the Child fears it because of the…

— Eric Berne

“All social intercourse between human beings is a response of personality to personality, grading upward from the most casual brush between man and man…

— A.W. Tozer

The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought.

— Erving Goffman