Quotes About Poor Manners

#1. Judging others' intentions is the right of God alone. We don't have this right, and it is poor manners with God.

Habib Ali Al-Jifri

#2. It would be earth-shatteringly poor manners for you to whip out your sword in my home." And then, oh sublime horror, Jasper winked. "After all, we've only just met.

Melissa Grey

#3. My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Susane Colasanti

#4. It was as though he'd opened her palm, given her the words, and closed it up again.

Markus Zusak

#5. I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

Jacob Epstein

#6. Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?'
(page 262)

Elmore Leonard

#7. I hope one of those books is a primer on etiquette. You seriously need a refresher."
"You're not queen yet, Eadlyn. Take it down a notch." He walked away, and I was furious with
myself for not getting the last word.

Kiera Cass

#8. The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.

Volkmar Sigusch

#9. Good God, the lad is a lass!

Margaret Mallory

#10. You lose your manners when you're poor.

Lillian Hellman

#11. My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation ...

Chief Blackfish

#12. Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Aldous Huxley

#13. You lose your manners when you are poor.

Lillian Hellman

#14. No god will spare you forgiveness for loving me.

Liam Levi

#15. A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

William Maxwell

#16. You can always tell a rich New York girl from a poor one. And you can tell a rich Boston girl from a poor one. After all, that's what accents and manners are there for. But to the native New Yorker, the midwestern girls all looked and sounded the same. Sure, the

Amor Towles

#17. If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.

Esme Raji Codell

#18. Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.

Justin Cronin

#19. Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like, I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool.

Lisa McMann

#20. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

Robert Wilson Lynd