Quotes of: Manners Keyword

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

Jerry Saltz

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Dwarf mothers didn’t handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature.

Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves

If "Manners maketh man," as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile Be yourself, no matter what they say." ( )

Nothing Like the Sun

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, Vol. 3

Oh, was that what you meant? I figured you were speaking of your manner of whoring. I should have known you were wanting to fuck me too.

Lover Undefined

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.

Sacrificial Magic

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.

Outlander

When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but has no idea what it means. He only knows that it sounds pretty.

Patches Of Grey

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him.

Pride and Prejudice

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.

Persuasion

Express your emotions in a multidimensional manner. Don’t just speak; act! Don’t just say; show!

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

This is the fly in the ointment of free-market capitalism. It cannot ensure that profits are gained in a fair way, or distributed in a fair manner. On the contrary, the craving to increase profits and production blinds people to anything that might s...

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Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death. A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, ‘Screw it, I’m going out in style!

Vertigo

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

The Vicar of Wakefield

What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I always wonder why condescending snarkiness is the chosen method of communication for so many forum users. It seems to me like these things would be much better expressed in non-confrontational, polite manner.

Gavin Dunne

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Oscar Wilde

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Philip Pullman