Amusing Quote by P. J. O'Rourke Download Open image “Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.” — P. J. O'Rourke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amusing Manners Matter Right time Table manners Tables Time
“It was our understanding that we were to be instructing them in the ways of the civilized world, not being made beasts of burden,… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Ask you to please excuse my table manners, I was making room for the table dancers. — Drake Copy Share Image
“ Reminder: good table manners are the ultimate symbol of who you are, and how you were raised. ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image