Censure Quote by Samuel Johnson

“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

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your…

— Mark Twain

No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence…

— William Wilberforce

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

— Pythagoras

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

— George Bernard Shaw

If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately…

— Vaclav Havel

There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something extraordinary for the community, then you have…

— Santiago Calatrava

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

— Andre Gide

Beware of a man with manners.

— Eudora Welty

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

— Janet Morris

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

— Friedrich Nietzsche