While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice our local destination. But...
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John Adams
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.
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Moazzam Shaikh
The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.
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Josephine Ross
Since the moment when, at the sight of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions of life and death in the light of the new convictions, as he called them, which between the ages of twenty and thirty-four...
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Leo Tolstoy
More Quotes By Lord Byron
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.
She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.
I am not now That which I have been.
A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
