The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think being able to teach your children manners and to be respectful is one thing that you can do regardless to… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I mean, I think everything I do kinda follows a theme. I only write about a couple of things like some sort… — Everlast Copy Share Image
I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were… — Ruth Gordon 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
I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with… — Deborah Levy 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
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“ASK YOURSELF: Are you presenting yourself in the best of all lights, online and off, and demonstrating the dignity of good manners?… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Your Self Image Is Your Pattern!.. Every Thought Has An Activity Visualized. Every Activity Belongs To A Pattern. You Identify With Your… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Roxy Music' and 'For Your Pleasure,' those exercises in learning and unlearning of accent and manners, are Pop's equivalent of 'The Talented… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm… — Murdoc Niccals Copy Share Image
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Thomas,” the boss said. “How’s your father doing?” “He’s good, Sal.” Always the family questions first. That was Sal Demenci’s style. He… — Gary Ponzo Copy Share Image
As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions… — Henry David Thoreau 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
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's… — Mary Elizabeth Clark Copy Share Image
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
