“Good manners forced her to say, somewhat grudgingly, "Your boots are very nice." He grinned and regarded his footwear, which, though old,… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Is it possible for a man to be a good man when he is also a bad man? Is it possible for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Week before last I went to Wesleyan and read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” After it I went to one… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“If they’re beautiful I don’t much mind if they’re not true. It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You got to have the right lawyer and good management. I went years and years without management and even a good lawyer;… — Statik Selektah Copy Share Image
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful.… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“But the paradox of cycling is that if you are riding well then you are kept from your failings as a human… — Charly Wegelius Copy Share Image
“And so the good man ought to be Self-loving: because by doing what is noble he will have advantage himself and will… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this… — Israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
“This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending… — Shakespeare's Henry V Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
My liberal friends love to dismiss Reagan. You know, they'll say something like, 'Oh, didn't he, like, only read one-page memos when… — Rick Perlstein 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
“If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart.… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The portress said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“You haven't said yet weather I may help you while I am here" Elnora hesitated. You better say 'yes,'" he persisted. It… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“A good man buys you tampons when you run out. He does the dishes. He makes you coffee before you're awake in… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of… — Slavoj Žižek 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
A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
“One ends a romantic relationship while remaining a compassionate friend by being kind above all else. By explaining one’s decision to leave… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Among the so-called neurotics of our day there are a good many who in other ages would not have been neurotic-that is,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“If I were a good man, I would bury that part of myself. I would think about it, masturbate to it, maybe… — Sansa Rayne 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
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defence. The… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“You do me proud, Captain. But, dear, I want to say one thing and then I'm done; for you don't need much… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“One day—when the emperor had come to call on his uncle the cardinal—our worthy priest happened to be waiting as his Majesty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image