Bad Manners Quotes - Page 3

• Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with Normal Life are bullshit artists of the highest degree, looking to excuse their antisocial tendencies and bad manners away with a flourish of vocabulary and the semantic waving of hands.

  Matt Fraction

  Artist, Vocabulary, Hands

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• In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.

  George Mikes

  Country, Clever, Self

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same as courage. It's closer to bad manners than to courage. If you're going to be a writer, you basically have to say, 'this is just who I am'. There's a certain indefensibility about it. It's not about loving your community and taking care of it — you're not attached to the chamber of commerce. It's a little unsafe. You have to be willing to have only four friends, not 11.

  Lorrie Moore

  Art, Who I Am, Loving You

  "Lorrie Moore" by Louisa Kamps, www.elle.com. September 16, 2009.

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• A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Grateful, Vices

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• Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Years, Manipulation, Manners

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

  Socrates

  Teacher, Luxury, People

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• My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

  Rumi

  Heart, Garden, Delight

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• What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

  Lucinda Williams

  War, Eye, Ears

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I don't like people being rude. Bad manners and arrogance make me cross. People making others feel uncomfortable. And I really don't like it in restaurants when people are rude or patronising to waiters. I feel like saying, 'They're not your slave'. But my knees only shake around once every five years. You're safe, don't worry.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Years, Worry, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loyalty, Character, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

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• Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lying, Humanity, Individuality

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• the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Spiritual, Errors, Limited Resources

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.67, Faber & Faber

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