Congeniality Quotes

• The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Principles, Fairness

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• Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Marriage, Heart, Effort

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• There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Drinking, Men, Law

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• And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Truth, Delight, Certain

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• Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Missing, Cooking

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• Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

  Kitty Kelley

  Differences, Done, Tables

  "Kelley softens tone in new books" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. February 07, 2013.

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• No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Song, Likes, Sociability

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Gentleman Called”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

  Phyllis Diller

  Missing, Mouths, Lasts

  "Legendary Comic Phyllis Diller Dies at 95" by Duane Byrge, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 20, 2012.

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• It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

  Richard Whately

  Friendship, Past, Tree

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition”, p.299

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