Quotes On Ill Manners

#1. Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

David Foster Wallace

#2. The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

Henry Walter Bates

#3. Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

#4. Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Walter Raleigh

#5. He knew he had only himself to blame; but it was more or less entirely her fault.

Nick Hornby

#6. I don't yearn to be a child again.

Loretta Young

#7. The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration ... they think it ill manners.

Mark Twain

#8. For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Thomas More

#9. Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter;

Lao-Tzu

#10. My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.

Stephen Lang

#11. In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

Karen DeCrow

#12. Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Jonathan Swift

#13. Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the greenhorn or counterfeit, and certainly the ill-bred. "The bravest are the tenderest; the gentlest are the daring.

Kenneth W. Estes

#14. Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

#15. We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Matthew McConaughey

#16. A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

#17. It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

Benjamin Franklin

#18. Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Jonathan Swift

#19. When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

Carl Jung

#20. The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

Sigmund Freud

#21. A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.

Joan Silber

#22. Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

Jeremy Collier

#23. In vain sedate reflections we would make
When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

Alexander Pope

#24. There has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.

Cesar Chavez

#25. ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

Maria Callas

#26. For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

Patrick Ness