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• The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth.

  Varg Vikernes

  Tattoo, Black, Dresses

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• Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Order, Discipline

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• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  E. V. Lucas

  Courtesy, Defence, Courtesy Manners

  1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.8.

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• At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

  William John Wills

  Girl, Education, Art

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.71, London : R. Bentley

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• Create your own job. Become the master of what you do. Fully imerse yourself in your culter. Be humble. You are never above having to pack boxes. Never forget where you came from. And always be polite. Good old-fashioned manners can get you very far. -Jenne Lomardo

  Sophia Amoruso

  Jobs, Humble, Never Forget

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.199, Penguin

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• Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.

  Aldo Gucci

  Matter, Thursday, Week

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• Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want it.

  Billy Carter

  Beer, Marijuana, Want

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• The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

  George Saintsbury

  Artist, Giving, Transition

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.209, tredition

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• Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

  Charles Simmons

  Good Man, Littles, Energy

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• There is no nobility with bad manners.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Nobility, Bad Manners

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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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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.

  Elinor Lipman

  People, Degrees, Lessons

  Elinor Lipman (2007). “My Latest Grievance”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.

  Ellen G. White

  Godly, Simple, Dresses

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV”, p.19, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

  Al Smith

  Sports, Believe, Simple

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• Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communication, Atheism, Saint

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Life, Believe, Simple

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• I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people sense they should have better manners, and need only a nudge. In high school, I was addressed for the first time in my life as "Mister Ebert" by Stanley Hynes, an English teacher, and his formality transformed his classroom into a place where a certain courtliness prevailed.

  Roger Ebert

  Life, Teacher, School

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• Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

  Lauren Willig

  Knitting, Needles, Application

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.299, Penguin

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• God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

  William Wilberforce

  Two, Morality, Slave

  "William Wilberforce". Book by William Hague, 2007.

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• If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.

  Wolfgang Kohler

  Boys, Men, Psychology

  "Gestalt Psychology". Book by Wolfgang Köhler, p. 32, 1930.

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• I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Girl, Intelligent, Arrogance

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• One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

  Judith Martin

  Emotional, Ties, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

  Judith Martin

  Sneakers, Quality, Doe

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

  Judith Martin

  Country, Believe, Love Life

  "Miss Manners Rescues Civilization". Book by Judith Martin, 1998.

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