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“A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.”

Men Mind Lasts Next Minutes Taste Manners One Man Variables Successors

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.”

Humans Laughing Human Nature Taste Notion Manners Civilized Vulgar Vulgarity Hygiene Decorum Vulgarity Is

Author:Roger Ebert

“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”

“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

“We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.”

Giving Persons War Hard Moments Break Taste Paint Woods Manners Pockets Tattoo Ornaments Refinement Break Out War Paint

Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.”

Way Reality Taste Skills Judgment Observation Manners Distinction Decency Refined

Author:Edmund Burke

“The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.”

Knows Trying Sometimes Seems Existence New York Taste Manners Clothings Waiter

Book:New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill

Source: New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill

“When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.”

Age History Pride Taste Embrace Rewards Manners Purity Favourite Thrones Justified Impatience Emperor Roman Empire Degenerates Discreet

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“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

“Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.”

“Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.”

“It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.”

Law Easy Taste Originals Manners Decency Courtesy Good Taste Canon

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.”

“That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.”

Needs Force Powerful Taste Survival Instinct Manners Consideration Get Back Decency Civility Politeness Survival Instinct Will To Live

Author:Danny Boyle