Quote by Roger Kimball

Every culture has beauty and decorations of body. This is not of itself superficial, this is very human. Decorating when it becomes out of…

— David LaChapelle

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

The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation.…

— Edward Gibbon

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We thought that…

— Alexander McCall Smith

As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification…

— Kato Kiyomasa

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the…

— Millicent Fenwick

“Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the ‘civilized’ as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.”

— Vinod Pande

We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We have been tarnished by the views of generations, painted on with society's standards, but if we wipe away the dust, and polish the…

— Jason Micheal Ratliff

“Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively…

— Oscar Wilde