Manners Quotes - Page 25

• O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

  Mortimer Collins

  Wise, Fate, Past

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• The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and attitudes towards each other. The children's books come from the reverse. They're more supportive, since we're living in a time where we talk more about kids and do less, we talk about balancing the budget and we do it by cutting education.

  Jules Feiffer

  Children, Attitude, Book

  "Feiffer backs into another success" by Dennis Michael, www.cnn.com. January 31, 1996.

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• The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mother, Children, Humility

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• Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Color, Two, Simplicity

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• Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.

  Amy Poehler

  Nice, Keys, Secret

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

  C. D. Broad

  Spiritual, Healthy, Good Man

  C. D. Broad (2000). “Five Types of Ethical Theory”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?

  Matthew Arnold

  Voice, People, Giving

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Rude, Good Man, Sage

  Solomon ben Judah Ibn Gabirol, Benjamin Henry Ascher (1859). “A Choice of Pearls: Embracing a Collection of the Most Genuine Ethical Sentences, Maxims and Salutary Reflections”, p.145

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• Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.

  John Hancock

  Christian, Wise, Encouragement

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• It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

  Bayard Taylor

  People, Different, Firsts

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.88

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• It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Discovery, Order

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

  Judith Martin

  Women, Principles, Fairness

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• Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Good Man, Looks

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• The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

  Fanny Kemble

  People, Giving, House

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

  Fanny Kemble

  People, Giving, House

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Revenge, Lying, Heart

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• By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.

  Muhammad Asad

  Views, West, Degrees

  "Islam at the Crossroads" by Muhammad Asad, Dar Al-Andalus, (p. 70), 1982.

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• In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

  William Wordsworth

  Passion, Law, Differences

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.502

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• A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Mind, Variables

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• The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beautiful, Ideas, Moral

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• Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Versailles, Caught, Contagious

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• If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

  Madame de Stael

  Views, Imagination, Succeed

  "The Influence of Literature upon Society". Book by Madame de Stael, 1800.

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• Morals are three-quarters manners.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Three, Moral, Quarters

  "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces". Book by Harlan Buddington Phillips, January 1, 1960.

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• Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Shapes, Strange, Habit

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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