#bad man

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. ↗

— John Major

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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way. ↗

— Janet Suzman

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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. ↗

— Sophocles

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In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

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