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I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
Lemmy
Food
You
People
Manners
Table
Eating
Puts
Like
Off
Really
Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
Letitia Baldrige
Work
Kindness
People
World
Manners
Chaos
Only
No-One
Know
Also
Make
Knows
Smoother
Efficiency
Based
A man or woman can be known and respected for good taste, regardless of job or income level, if they make good choices in clothes, have good table manners, are kind and organize their home to look warm, welcoming, clean, and appropriate to their station in life.
Letitia Baldrige
Life
Good
Home
Man
Woman
Job
Good Taste
Clothes
Manners
Appropriate
Respected
Station
Kind
Table
Clean
Look
Welcoming
Make
Known
Taste
Regardless
Warm
Choices
Organize
Income
Level
I believe in teaching manners without causing fisticuffs.
Letitia Baldrige
Manners
Believe
Without
Causing
Teaching
You lose your manners when you are poor.
Lillian Hellman
You
Lose
Manners
Poor
Your
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Louisa May Alcott
Character
Worth
Clothes
Manners
Possess
Magic
More
Had
Instinct
Powerful
Over
She
Womanly
Than
Influence
Many
Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.
Lynn Coady
Sometimes
Situation
Manners
Rules
Given
Individual
Miss
Era
Were
Pine
Any
Behaviour
Hard
Fast
When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn't understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day.
Margherita Missoni
Day
Family
People
Manners
Other
Table
Prop
About
Put
Head
Looked
Felt
Understand
Always
How
Up
Heavy
Wanted
After
Elbow
Whole
Awake
Serious
Growing
Growing Up
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
Seen
Manners
Objects
Remarkable
Contains
Primitive
Picturesque
Towns
Most
Antiquity
Whether
Place
Interesting
Inhabitants
Viewed
Certainly
Appearance
Ever
My parents were very strict about manners and being polite to others. I brought my own children up that way, too.
Mary Berry
Strict
Parents
Own
Manners
Too
Others
Way
Brought
About
My Own
Polite
Were
Up
Very
Being
Children
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
Good
Half
Manners
Lying
Good Manners
Politeness
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Time
Money
Men
Manners
General
Writers
Never
Robbing
Likely
Readers
Time And Money
Been
Loss
Representing
Romance
Them
Double
Novels
Things
Bring
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren
Prevail
Progress
Revolution
Manners
Characters
Has-Been
Rapid
Animated
Almost
Noblest
New
Blending
Ideas
Alteration
Principles
Been
Train
American
Which
American Revolution
Nearly
Universally
My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.
Naseem Hamed
Me
Speak
Parents
Manners
Way
High
Brought
Head
Wrong
Know
Up
Hold
Right
We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
Oliver Hudson
Manners
Our
Kids
Had
Were
Normal
Up
Taught
Grew
Katie
Chores
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Orison Swett Marden
Beauty
Manners
Physical
Winning
Most
Greatest
Always
Person
Fascinating
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux
Good
Rudeness
Made
Manners
Good Manners
Indistinguishable
Japanese
Them
In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.
Penelope Keith
Book
Somebody
Manners
Thinking
Else
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
Philip Pullman
You
Manners
Minus
Calculate
Like
Without
Equation
Square
Cannot
Which
Root
Your
Eve
Include
Things
Adam
Imaginary
Adam And Eve
Imagined
Numbers
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Laughter
Manners
Characteristic
Folly
Frequent
Loud
Ill
When going out on a date, I think there are certain old-fashioned manners that I still enjoy. I don't mean that as an anti-feminist comment. I just mean it as a pro-women comment. There must be a place for us to exist and our differences to exist without one taking away from the other.
Rachael Stirling
Differences
Manners
Enjoy
Think
Other
Our
Out
Must
Date
Taking
Without
Still
Exist
Comment
Going
Just
Place
Mean
Us
Certain
Old-Fashioned
Away
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Randall Jarrell
Manners
More
None
Than
Frightening
American
Far
English
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
Richard V. Allen
Soil
Manners
Society
Other
Nurtured
Born
Habits
Never
Redress
Been
Afflicted
Offered
American
Same
Common
Customs
Much
Who
Whose
Consent
I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.
Robert Burns
Political
Thought
Men
Seen
Few
Manners
Willing
Moral
Ability
Classes
Some
Admit
Poetical
Writers
Am
Very
Chiefly
Any
May
Common
Different
Either
Which
Acquainted
Mankind
Originality
Whom
Among
Assist
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
Robert Grosseteste
Good
Faithful
Manners
Good Manners
No-One
Indoors
Household
Without
Command
Discreet
Office
Which
Them
Your
Painstaking
Reasonable
Belief
Received
Kept
Honest
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy
Life
Great
World
Value
Manners
Separation
Christian
Prohibited
Marriages
More
Martyrdom
Higher
Had
Great Value
Were
Celibacy
Pitch
Them
Strained
Required
Standard
Christian Life
Second
Fasting
Set
Careful
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