In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion,… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
“If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the… — Toby Young 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
Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He… — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire;… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I… — Sarah Rees Brennan 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
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
“Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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