Manners Quotes - Page 26

• I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'

  Neil Gaiman

  Lunch, People, Say Anything

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• Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.

  Judith Martin

  Running, Missing, Mind

  "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior". Book by Judith Martin, 1982.

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• In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

  Jasper Fforde

  Order, Dancing, Good Man

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these people to approve of everyone's manners. I don't feel obliged to defend the manners of every poet who submits a poem to my web site. That's not my job. My job is to provide them with an opportunity to speak from the heart. If there's not much in the heart and if the mouth is running wild, that's not my problem.

  Sam Hamill

  Running, Country, Jobs

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to be a lot more of that kind of stuff because the autistic mind doesn't pick up social things and subtle cues.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Hands, Mind

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV or the internet, and there's ways of throwing jabs and being inconsiderate and not having your manners.

  Mike Vallely

  Thinking, Video, Way

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.

  Sue Grafton

  Clever, Smart, Book

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Wisdom, Fashion, Age

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• If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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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, Poland

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

  John Dewey

  Good Man, Information, Action

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

  John Dewey

  Play, Atmosphere, Agents

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life.

  Alicia Markova

  Dance, Moving, Fall

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• Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are two key elements in this equation.

  Steven Petrow

  Thinking, Keys, Self

  "Civilities: Steven Petrow answers all your LGBT and straight social dilemmas for the hour". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

  John Irving

  Community, Good Man, Stills

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• I believe very firmly that dash cams and body cams should be instituted for every single police officer in this country. Admit it, isn't it true that you behave differently when people are watching you? You chew with your mouth closed and you mind your table manners because people are watching. Cops are no different. Dash cams and body cams should be standard operating procedure.

  Nancy Grace

  Country, Believe, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society. Religion is the private affair of an individual...be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion. When I'm speaking, I'm speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.

  Akbar Ganji

  Atheist, Expression, Ideas

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West, and New York was like London at the height of the Victorian era, in which everyone was far more obsessed with table manners and status-climbing than they are in London. In London, everyone was just crawling over this blizzard of cocaine. Here, if you have more than a glass of wine with your meal, people refer you to Alcoholics Anonymous.

  Toby Young

  New York, Wine, Ideas

  Source: wwd.com

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• I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.

  Quentin Crisp

  War, Book, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, People, Morality

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills.

  Temple Grandin

  Teaching, Skills, Autism

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• I'm a child of the 50s. I was expected to have table manners. There needs to be some expectations for behavior. I'm seeing some children today, they don't push them enough.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Expectations, Needs

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to be rude. And I'm seeing some problems today where somebody's losing a job because they made fun of a fat lady that couldn't fit in the elevator. I mean that was the sort of thing that, when I was eight years old, my mother made it very clear to me that that was not okay to say that kind of stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• I think that one not only has to make demands on the established group, but one also has to make demands on the outsider group. One has to make clear: if you want to leave, please do so. But if you want to stay here, a degree of accommodation to the Dutch outlook, Dutch manners, and a degree of identification with the Netherlands will be expected of you. There is no reason why there cannot be Dutch Turks or Dutch Moroccans. But one can expect from them a degree of identification, some change of their own social identity.

  Norbert Elias

  Thinking, Identity, Outsiders

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.

  Murdoc Niccals

  Mean, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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