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“There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.”

Certain Social Grace Genius Mere Patterns Communicate Mortals Inability Eccentricity Mere Mortals Social Graces

Author:John Noble

“The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.”

Knows World Kind Country Seems Culture Speak Language Social Grace Heard Our Country Speaks French Social Graces

Author:Bernard Pivot

“Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.”

Ideas Left Force Social Grace Personality Genius Enlightening Social Graces

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.”

Source: The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index

“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.”

Should Children Stories Social Grows Mistake Growing Up Grace Wonderful Crazy Habit Dear Allowing Comment Spouse Unimportant Tuesday Wednesday Correcting Interrupting Social Graces

Author:Judith Martin

“Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.”

Social Grace Fool Genius Comfortable Manners Companion Impunity Social Graces

Book:The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living

Source: The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living