Truth Quote by Sen no Rikyū

“Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune not to…

— Noel Monk

“Hospitality, however, seeks to minister. It says, "This home is not mine. It is truly a gift from my Master. I am His servant…

— Karen Burton Mains

“...in an area such as this the possibility of violence for the sake of robbery or even mere amusement is always something to be…

— K.W. Jeter

“There are people, gentlemen, who dislike roundabout ways and only mask themselves at masquerades. There are people who do not see man’s highest avocation…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all…

— Margaret George

“As if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since…

— Steven Erikson

“When I consider, with all the clarity I can muster, what my life has apparently been, I imagine it as some brightly coloured scrap…

— Fernando Pessoa

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“I want to say to our Relief Societies, our Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations and our Primary Associations that I desire and sincerely hope…

— Joseph F. Smith

“He’d polished that old coffee table a few times since he had arrived, but the dust seemed to meander from room to room like…

— Ania Ahlborn

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“Don't follow the crowd. The side of the majority is the riskiest place to have dust thrown on your uniqueness.”

— Israelmore Ayivor