Quotes 61 till 78 of 78.
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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 who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
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There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
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There's reason good, that you good laws should make:
Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio XXIV, To The Parliament, lines 1-2. -
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
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This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69 -
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.''
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.
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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
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