#manners

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I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.


Billy Connolly


#club #come #concert #concert hall #dear

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.


Marguerite Gardiner


#appearance #certainly #contains #ever #i

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.


William John Wills


#arts #confined #deep #differently #dispositions

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.


Helen Rowland


#charming #compliments #criticism #forgets #giving

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.


Og Mandino


#constantly #graces #i #improve #manners

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.


Sylvester Stallone


#could #countries #find #good #good manners

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.


James Kent


#consideration #differ #dimensions #each #entitled

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.


Clarence Thomas


#cannot #doors #education #good #good manners

Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do so—rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.


Jane Lindskold


#manners #meals #wolf #business

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.


Katharine Fullerton Gerould


#among #comes #conventional #kind #literacy