Jonathan Swift Quotes
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
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Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -- simplified, clarified and glorified.
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The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
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Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
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The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.
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There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV or the internet, and there's ways of throwing jabs and being inconsiderate and not having your manners.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.
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I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
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Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
