Manners Quotes - Page 35

• I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Wisdom, Islamic, Learning

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• Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results.

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Love You, Player

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• When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Gratitude, Rights, Justice

  Theodore Dalrymple (2001). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass”, Ivan R Dee

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• The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Self, Ordinary

  Joseph Addison (1712). “The Spectator”, p.196

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• As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

  Lewis Carroll

  Opposites, Gentleman, Misunderstood

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1114, Wordsworth Editions

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• In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Expression, Choices

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

  Ovid

  Education, Art, Men

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• The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex (which, since it was a Yale Daily News poll, meant kissing).

  Paul Rudnick

  Sex, Kissing, Yale

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• He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

  Nicolas Bentley

  Wife, Greek, Precious Possessions

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• The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

  George Gilder

  Facts, Moral, Thrilling

  George F. Gilder (1974). “Sexual suicide”

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• Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

  Tom Lehrer

  Nice, Moral, Percentages

  "Song: "Be Prepared"". 1953.

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• A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Girl, Sex, Making Love

  Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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• Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Trying, Assistants, Moral

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• My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Dollars, Fifty, Moral

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• The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.

  Tim Cahill

  Sharks, Knives, Swim

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• It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Doe, Fool

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• Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

  Russell Baker

  Grease, Together, Moral

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• The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

  Lauren Bacall

  Order, Things In Life, Moral

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• Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

  Sam Levenson

  Doe, Three, Stories

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

  W. C. Fields

  People, Knack, Moral

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• Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.

  B. C. Forbes

  People, Moral, Methodical

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• Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Girl, Blue, Jeans

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• Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hard Work, Genius, Moral

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• I love men's clothes, but that doesn't make me a weirdo.

  Margaux Hemingway

  Men, Clothes, Moral

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• The early worm deserves the bird.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Bird, Moral, Worms

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