Bandages Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert…

— Anonymous

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

— Friedrich Schiller

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of…

— J. Irwin Miller

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if…

— Charlotte Brontë

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women…

— Lydia M Child

“Nowadays, when more subtle studies and more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing into principles, a vile and misleading uniformity governs our…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Routine comes down like twilight on a harsh landscape, softening it until it is tolerable. The complexity is too subtle, too varied; the values…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In…

— Joseph Addison