#manners

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

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Manners are love in a cool climate. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#cool #love #manners

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#hard #life #life is hard #manners #nowadays

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#carry #friends #go #good #good manners

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#alteration #american #american revolution #animated #annihilated

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#away #especially #get #manners #need

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ↗

— Simone Weil

#beings #degree #due #effectively #equal

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#command #discreet #faithful #good #good manners

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#insincerity #manners #friendship

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#manners #pooh #tigger #humor