About author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: February 2, 1923
- Died: January 19, 1997
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
![Milan Kundera quote: "In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable..."](/pic/283069/600x316/quotation-milan-kundera-in-the-world-of-eternal-return-the-weight-of.jpg)
![Paulo Coelho quote: "God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to..."](/pic/327798/600x316/quotation-paulo-coelho-god-has-a-prepared-path-for-us-to-follow-we-just.jpg)
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.
Judith Martin
![Sargent Shriver quote: "Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose..."](/pic/86687/600x316/quotation-sargent-shriver-just-to-travel-is-rather-boring-but-to-travel.jpg)
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy....
Raoul Vaneigem
![Elaine Dundy quote: "Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my..."](/pic/343421/600x316/quotation-elaine-dundy-oh-teddy-darling-thank-you-thank-you-for.jpg)