Manners Quotes - Page 37

• Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Friendly, Toys

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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• The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

  Judith Martin

  Food, Teaching, Accomplishment

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mother, America, Insulting

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.55, BoD – Books on Demand

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• There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech

  Flannery O'Connor

  Two, Southern, Quality

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• The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known,
  For a man by nothing is so well betrayed
  As by his manners.

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, Mind, Deeds

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 6, canto 3, st. 1

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• A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

  William Maxwell

  Men, House, Gentleman

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• Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two, Gentleman, Consideration

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• You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Army, Essence, Gentleman

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”, p.91

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• Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Gentleman, Noblemen

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”

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• Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

  Roger Scruton

  Morning, Inspiration, Exercise

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• The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

  John Denham

  Men, Civilization, Abuse

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• Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

  John Owen

  Self, Sea, Ideas

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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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• To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

  Randall Jarrell

  Scary, Frightening

  'Pictures from an Institution' (1954) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

  Tom Robbins

  Journey, Men, East

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.62, Bantam

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• If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

  Bobby Bowden

  Football, Army, Hair

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• Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

  James F. Cooper

  Dark, Men, Skins

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• Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Beautiful, Good Man, Sincerity

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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• I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?

  Rebecca Wells

  Heart, Knowing, Missing

  The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ch. 31 (1996)

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• In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Culture, Ease, Social

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• Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.

  Simon Schama

  Art, Reality, Order

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• Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.

  Diana Vreeland

  Thinking, Thoughtfulness

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

  Tina Brown

  Answers, Ease, Ability

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• The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous manners, a generous regard for the rights of others, and, above all, integrity which admits of no qualification or variation.

  William A. Clark

  Integrity, Rights, Essentials

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• It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

  William Alexander Percy

  Nice, Good Man, Important

  William Alexander Percy (1973). “Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son”, p.286, LSU Press

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