Manners Quotes
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The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
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Many a time have I wondered at the unworthy ways of Fate, at the pettiness of the pleasure it takes in frustrating plans that are small and innocent, at its entire want of dignity, at its singular spitefulness, at the resemblance of its manners to those of an evilly-disposed kitchen-maid....
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It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
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It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
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Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
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I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.
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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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I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
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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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What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
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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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Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
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I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
