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Manners Quotes (page 2)

What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man? I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me; I am in fear -- in awful fear -- and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of... Bram Stoker
Lillian Gish quote: "You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier..."
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. Lillian Gish
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bryant H. McGill quote: "Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred."
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. Bryant H. McGill
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. Mary Wollstonecraft
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. Richard Whately
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. quote: "Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other..."
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! Marquis de Sade
Benjamin Banneker quote: "Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to..."
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. Benjamin Banneker
He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. Neil Gaiman
I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no not the taking off of the ground, one of those knives is worth all this heap, I have no manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving. However, upon second thoughts, I took it away... Daniel Defoe
Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement. Robert Musil
Thought Experiment: You are a native of New York City, you live in New York, work in New York, travel about the city with no particular emotion except a mild boredom, unease, exasperation, and dislike especially for, say, Times Square and Brooklyn, and a longing for a Connecticut farmhouse. Later you become an astronaut and wander in space for years. You land on a strange, unexplored (you think) planet. There you find a road sign with an arrow, erected by a previous astronaut in the manner of... Walker Percy
The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite. Vilfredo Pareto
Maria Edgeworth quote: "Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards..."
Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves. Maria Edgeworth

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