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“Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear.”

May Dresses Manners Satire Employed Antiquity

Author:Joseph Addison

“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.”

“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?”

Book Pleasure Expression Laughter Dresses Manners Historian Ridicule Old Time Merriment

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.”

Men Way Wells Language Numbers Attention Greater Wise Fashion He Man Ought Draws Dresses Every Man Manners Behave Shock Affected Excess Conform Haste

Author:Moliere

“What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.”

Giving Mean Persons Long Doe Running Opportunity Wealth Dresses Delight Manners Bliss Reasonable Leisure Long Runs Decency Courtesy Cleanliness Competencies

Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.”

Streets Quiet Dresses Manners Bows Refinement Expressive Very True Physiognomy

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.”

Conversation Elements Dresses Manners Loud

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.”

Source: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith

“... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.”

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Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

“The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.”

Language Nations Differences Dresses Manners Globes

Book:The Crusades: A.D. 1095-1261

Source: The Crusades: A.D. 1095-1261

“Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.”

Matter Dresses Occasions Manners Good Manners

Author:Loretta Young

“It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.”

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Author:Alison Croggon

“In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they're going to be who they're going to be.”

Children Littles Ends Shows Teach Dresses Suits Manners Sailor

Author:Tina Fey

“Dressing well is a form of good manners.”

“It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know what they were saying back then? That families would dissolve. That it was the end of good manners and society. There has always been a conservative and traditional opinion out there that's afraid of change. When I was young and would go dancing at balls, we'd have to wear suits and ties. Otherwise they wouldn't let us in. I don't think anyone dresses up for dancing parties nowadays.”

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Author:Jose Mujica

“We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.”

Wells Nations England Dresses Manners Bother Etiquette

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can.”

Ifs World Should Trying Wells Looks Kind Shows Faces Asks Rooms Views Effects Standing Dresses Manners Ask Me Chairs Good Man Dressings Sculpture Good Manners Dressing Well

Author:Tom Ford

“Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.”

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Author:Roger Scruton

“The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth.”

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Author:Varg Vikernes

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