Character Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Good man Good manners Manners Tolerable Virtue
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them. The essence… — Henry Alford Copy Share Image
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. — Bill Kelly Copy Share Image
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
