Generations Quote by Byron Dobell Download Open image “Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners” — Byron Dobell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generations
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. — Lord Chesterfield 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 allowed to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents. — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning.… — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
