Manners Quote by Willa Cather Download Open image ““Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.”” — Willa Cather ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Last Word Manners
“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully, "It's a lady's priviledge.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“You're welcome, ma'am." My head whips up at the ma'am. Not that I haven't heard that word spilled like sticky sweet syrup from a… — Liz Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“The Lady may favor you, but at least I am in charge of my own destiny.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“What did she say? Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You can fuck me if you want," she said. "I know a man needs to be able to say thank you - and words… — Sharon Weil Copy Share Image
“I don’t recall either of you asking me, you know I’m a lady and I need to be asked and agree to it.” — Amanda Kelly Copy Share Image
“It's her privilege to say or think whatever she wants. It's mine to ignore her.” — Carolyn Brown Copy Share Image
“Then, dear Mamma, I hope you will grant me the first request I make to you, as Queen. Let me be by myself for… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
“[...] we will leave this place, and go into other lodgings - you as the mistress; and I as the maid." "I should be found out, ma'am," interposed Louisa, trembling at the prospect before her. "I am not a lady." "And I am," said Magdalen bitterly. "Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
“My greatest rewards from women have been kisses on the cheek, a whispered thank-you for helping them manage their mothers-in-law, and even an invitation… — Phoebe Damrosch Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in peace. She flecks her whip upon flesh that is more alive, upon that stream of hungry boys and girls who tramp the streets of every city, recognizable by their pride and discontent, who are the Future,… — Willa Cather Copy Share
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness… — Willa Cather Copy Share
“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike about things." "Yes, that's it; we've liked the same things and we've liked them together, without anybody else knowing. And we've had good times, hunting for Christmas trees and going for ducks and making our plum… — Willa Cather Copy Share
“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home,… — Margaret Fishback Copy Share Image
I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which is always… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this:… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
