“Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.” NaturalRocksPainterMannersSculptureObligedFoldsGarmentsSculptorsHardness Author:John Dryden
“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.” PersonsSocialNaturalDifferencesClassAirStreetsStyleDrugEnglandRelationDressesTrainStoresBackgroundsMannersDriversAccentsAssistantsStrollingCabSnobberyDeferenceHostessesSocial RelationsCab DriversBarmenClass Differences Author:Anthony Crosland
“Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little.” PeopleLittlesPainYoungLostHeavenNaturalAttitudeStudyPleaseGainsAdvantageGlassesMannersToneCharmAffectedFragileAwkwardImitationBorrowedGait Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.” IfsPersonsMadeStillsHardNaturalDogKingsBehaviorOvercomingShoesMannersBehaviourLacePropensity Author:Bill Vaughan
“Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.” MindNaturalDignityImportanceCommandMannersContemptRidiculeConcealed Author:Joseph R. Bartlett
“What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?” WorldWaySelfHomeNaturalWorstProduceInstinctAffectionSeekingMannersOutcomesSelf RespectPolitenessSuppressionNatural Instinct Author:Humphry Davy
“Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.” BelievePersonsYoungNaturalMannersCoarse Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.” MenLongLastsNaturalTakenOrdinarySimplicityMannersDreadAttainmentBeing Natural Author:Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
“Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.” MenDoeLightNaturalSimpleFoolGravesMannersGravityTenderness Author:William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley