Manners Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Manners Shows
A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflections what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves” — Darius Bolton Copy Share Image
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Who sees the human face correctly;the painter the photographer or the mirror? — Lekan Wahab Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
