Quotes About Manner

It's a rare thing, graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired, but not, I think, the substance.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.

No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.

Be charming at any age.

Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul's journeying.

The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of the misery they witnessed; and they felt that mere curiosity would not authorize a longer intrusion. So soon, therefore, as they had relieved, according to their power, the poverty that seemed to be the least evil of this cottage, they emerged into the open air.

Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.

Fox grins. Go strides to the rear of the Ford. His manner never alters. The Vietnamese has purposeful intensity down pat.

Why did Communism collapse so precipitously in 1989? We should not indulge the sirens of retrospective determinism, however seductive. Even if Communism was doomed by its inherent absurdities, few predicted the timing and the manner of its going.

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

What exactly was it about Egypt that encouraged women rulers to set their caps so high? The historian Herodotus proposed that things were just different there: 'The people, in most of their manners and customs, exactly reverse the common practice of mankind. For example women attend the markets and trade, while men sit at home at the loom..., Women urinate standing up, men sitting down....

This henbane was used, in this very manner, we are told, in Shakespeare's works, by Hamlet's uncle, when he poisoned Hamlet's father.

Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.

Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.

You continue to not be and asshole, Kyung. I do my best to maintain that benchmark.

In what manner of life's twists and turns could they find themselves united once more? Verily, it defied destiny, did it not. Oh, the wee one. Ill begotten. Ne'er to be forgotten. E'er to have a piece of his heart.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.

A man should not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.