F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes About Manners

Quotes about: Manners

• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Fun, Intelligent

• Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Work, Dirty, Manners

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

• Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Liars, Men, Vanity

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

• good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Gloves, Tender Is The Night, Manners

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

• Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Drunk, Firsts

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

• I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Echoes, Parent

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