Architecture Quote by Edith Wharton

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

— Eric Hoffer

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

“Mr. Popple, in fact, held that the personality of the artist should at all times be dissembled behind that of the man. It was…

— Edith Wharton

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

— Edith Wharton

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of…

— Edith Wharton

Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and,…

— Lord Chesterfield

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below…

— Jonathan Swift

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem…

— Samuel Johnson

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom…

— Jules Romains

It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is…

— Charles Kingsley

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where…

— Lord Chesterfield