Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places,… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
“Our privacy can serve as a form of protection during times of crisis and can offer a polite boundary of respect and… — Christopher Manske Copy Share Image
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and… — Gerald F. Lieberman Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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