Maniere De Quotes

#1. We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.
[Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#2. Polly had always marveled ... that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose ... gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.

Sheri Holman

#3. We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

Steven Pinker

#4. If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

Tana French

#5. As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

Tabitha Suzuma

#6. What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

Charles De Lint