#mann

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#guests #hospitality #hosts #manners #home

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#manners #manners

I want to get lost in other worlds and let my imagination travel beyond this life I know. ↗

— Jen Naumann

#imagination #jen-naumann #shymers #imagination

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#giving-others-space #love #manners #self-care #self-confidence

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable. ↗

— Fannie Flagg

#life #manners #truth #life

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#life

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#children #demian #feelings #hermann-hesse #thoughts

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. ↗

— Judith Martin

#courtesy #manners #miss-manners #age

Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity! ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#love

Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?' 'I should think so,' said Henry. 'What think you of him?' 'Why, that he writes admirably; and, moreover, what is more admirable - in such a manner that you see at once he almost believes that which he relates. As for me, I know very well that when I read him of a dark night, I am obliged to creep to bed without shutting my book, and without daring to look behind me.' 'Indeed; then you love the terrible and fantastic?' 'I do,' said Henry. ("The Dead Man's Story ↗

— James Hain Friswell

#eta-hoffmann #fantastic #fantastique #fear #horror