Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Manners

Quotes about: Manners

• Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Versailles, Manners, Caught

• Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Attitude, Glasses

• It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Our Words, Attention, May

• A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, World, Manners

• Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, World, Moments

• Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Manners, Should, Politeness

• A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Mind, Variables

• The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beautiful, Ideas, Moral

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