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“Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.”

People Expression Treats Manners Formal

Author:Molly Ivins

“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

“Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.”

Kind Simple Our Lives Expression Behavior Excuse Manners Feds Courtesy Gracious Excuse Me Kind Words

Author:Bill Vaughan

“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.”

World Form Lying Choices This World Expression Manners Mask Conventional Institute

Book:The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

Source: The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.”

Men Wells Made Two Character Helping Used Hours Differences Opinion Watches Expression Drawing Statements Manners Compare Clock Distinction Plates Johnson Brighter Neat

Author:James Boswell

“Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.”

Men World Mean Has Beens Company Liberty Learning College Expression Taste Conversation Cells Manners Loser Shut Up Facility Good Company Secluded Taste Of Life

Book:Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

“Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.”

Giving Expression Comfort Manners Enjoyment Good Man Endeavor Intercourse Benevolence Good Manners Uneasiness

Book:American Woman's Home

Source: American Woman's Home

“All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society. Religion is the private affair of an individual...be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion. When I'm speaking, I'm speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.”