Social Graces Quotes

• If YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE..COME SIT BY ME.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Nice, Magnolias, Ifs

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• If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nice, Magnolias, Ifs

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• Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

  Maria Montessori

  Discipline, Joy, Grace

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• The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.

  David Breashears

  Stress, Character, Climbing

  David Breashears, Jon Krakauer (2000). “High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

  Jack Nicholson

  Silly, Simple, Doors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

  Judith Martin

  Mistake, Grace, Wonderful

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• Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Grace, Genius, Fool

  Amy Vanderbilt, Letitia Baldrige (1978). “The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living”, Doubleday Books

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• Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Growing Up, Crazy

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• To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
  having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Grace, Degrees

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Husband, Dancing

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• Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Determination, Race, Challenges

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

  Janis Ian

  Home, Phones, Grace

  Song: At Seventeen, Album: Between the Lines, 1975

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• There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

  John Noble

  Grace, Inability, Genius

  "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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• I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

  Rick Yancey

  Grace, Ignorant, Social

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Men, Grace, Knack

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.61, Penguin

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• A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Heart, Mean, Sleep

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.104, A&C Black

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• Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.

  Tom Robbins

  Ideas, Personality, Grace

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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• The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

  Bernard Pivot

  Country, Speaks French, Grace

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• Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

  Jay Griffiths

  Grace, Timing, Individual

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• ...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

  Jeannette Walls

  Dad, Home, School

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Believe, Fall

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