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
Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she… — Judith Martin 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
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. — Wendell Willkie 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
The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post 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
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The fervor of his crowds recalls Nasser's Egypt. His convictions are illiberal. His manners are disgusting.… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners,… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries.… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
