Manners Quote by Jack Kerouac

“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.…

— Jack Kerouac

In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food.…

— Margaret George

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

— Jack Kerouac

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this:…

— Rebecca Wells

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable…

— Mark Twain

“What a nice thing to say," Mom said, standing up a little straighter, as if she'd been watered. Marlena's manners were unpracticed, but she…

— Julie Buntin

The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody…

— Philip Roth

To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which is always…

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the…

— Bill Nighy

To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home,…

— Margaret Fishback