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Thorstein Veblen has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their…
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In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite,…
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Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the…
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of…
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The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
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The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical…
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of…
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful,…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
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We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';…
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I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter
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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
— Plato
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Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing…
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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #…
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In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of…
— Bea Arthur
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None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his…
— David Hume
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It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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