Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“It may seem a little obvious that Megan would feel that in her music or that I would feel it in woodworking,… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Fight for friends. Joyful trips. Examination fever. Suspense of results. Making parodies of teachers. Joking with juniors. Carefree laughters. Gossips about affairs.… — Aldyna Threesya Copy Share Image
It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
“Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never… — Maria Bethania Copy Share Image
Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves.… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they… — Margaret Fishback Copy Share Image
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day… — Aldo Gucci Copy Share Image
My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance,… — Edward Gibbon 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
“but we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
Everyone has a right to live in his own way. But in the process, should not compromise moral and social value. A… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
![“You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/fanny-burney-7403_devil_you-have-sensible-women-here-in-england_2177257.jpg)
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