Quotes About Comedy Of Manners

#1. I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

Amy Heckerling

#2. Trust is like an antique, once it's broken, it can never be replaced

Mouloud Benzadi

#3. Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Josh Stern

#4. The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

Ben Bernanke

#5. The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new solar system.

Lenny Bruce

#7. And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.

Eddie Murray

#8. The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

David Edelstein

#9. Are you nervous?"...
"A little."
"Do you want to stop?"
"No, just go slow."
"I can do that." He could do any damn thing she asked of him.

Savannah Stuart

#10. Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

Noel Coward

#11. A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

Horace Walpole

#12. Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

Epictetus

#13. Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

Winston Churchill