Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes About Manners

Quotes about: Manners

• We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Tattoo, War, Giving

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.290

• The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Eye, Heart, Reality

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.199

• What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Running, Mean, Opportunity

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.293

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