Quotes of: Bad-manners Keyword

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

John Marshall

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Moshe Katsav

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

Roger Mahony

There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local...

Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

Life of Geoffrey Chaucer; The Early English Poet: Including Memoirs of His Near Friend and Kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: With Sketches of the Manners, Opinions, Arts and Literature of England in the Fourteenth Century Volume 1

It was difficult to imagine that a full day hadn't yet passed since we boarded the airliner in New York. I paused. Medieval man believed that one was placed beyond the touch of time, and therefore aging, while attending Mass. What, I wondered, would ...

All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

Harold Crick: How are you? Ana Pascal: I'm lousy. I'm being audited. Harold Crick: Of course. Ana Pascal: By a real creep too. Harold Crick: I think I owe you an apology. Ana Pascal: Really? Harold Crick: IRS agents, we're given rigorous aptitude tes...

Stranger Than Fiction

El chico malo será siempre malo, el mujeriego y frío chico no está esperando a una dulce dama que le brinde calor a su corazón; el bad boy será siempre igual. El amor nos cambia, pero nos cambia cuando queremos ser cambiados

Anahí se enamoró del bad boy

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can cont...

W.H. Auden

The belly is a bad adviser.

German

The accomplice is as bad as the thief.

Portuguese

The bad guys are the best parts.

Brion James

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

David Millar

I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.

Erin O'Connor

A bad man talks about what he has eaten and drunk -- a good man about what he has seen and heard.

Chinese

No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to “preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command, victory is scarcely obtainable.” Eisenhower r...

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in character and capacity, had enabled him to dash through his t...

Bleak House

A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbol means nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if yo...

John Grogan

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel act...

Mere Christianity