"You do not have to do everything disagreeable……" — Judith Martin
"You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do"
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83 Quotes by Judith Martin
Judith Martin has 83 quotes on this site.
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Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.
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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
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She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a…
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A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the…
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The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration,…
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You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.
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If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.
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Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards
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Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and…
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Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.
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It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and…
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More Disagreeable Quotes
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it…
— Winston Churchill
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when…
— Leonard Cohen
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I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the…
— Hiram Maxim
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One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
— Zig Ziglar
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
— James Boswell
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
— Samuel Johnson
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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
— John of the Cross
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.)…
— Ambrose Bierce
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