Quotes About Manner

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked upon Grand Tours of Europe in pursuit of a peripatetic scholarship.

a melodious melancholy manner of mirth.

And I found a statement by Hawthorne which helped to explain his method: "I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mind was concerned, by imagining a train of incidents in which the spiritual mechanism of the faery legend should be combined with the characters and manners of everyday life.

Time, however, was creeping or sliding or flowing or proceeding in whatever unknown manner Time used to make Then into Now.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.

For Zora Neale Hurston has been "rediscovered" in a manner unprecedented in the black tradition:

Manner is everything," an elegant translation of that judicial axiom: "Form over content.

It is your manner, my dear. When a young man comes up to speak to you, you look so serious that a spiteful person might believe you doubtful of your own virtue. You seem to fear lest a smile should undo you. You really look as if you were asking forgiveness of God for the sins that may be committed around you. The world, my dearest, is not a convent. — But, as you mentioned your dress, I may confess to you that it is no less a duty to conform to the customs and fashions of Society.

To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

Stay Classy!

the Spartans would want it known how they had died. Of all things, they considered the manner of death mattered as much as the manner of life.

My family practised our faith in a relaxed manner. My mum Fiona was brought up a Christian; her dad was a vicar. But she fell in love with my dad David and converted to Judaism to be with him.

What am I going to say to the lady's maid when she sees this?" He considered that for a moment. "Alas?" he suggested.

A smile is not true or false in the manner in which a conceptual meaning is true or false. It is truth in the sense in which one can say that a person is true, a thing is true. But it is usually not true in the sense in which a proposition is true or false.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

This emphasis on perceived refinements of character and of manner and of taste tended to distort and to flatten, and ultimately to suggest not the actual victim of an actual crime but a fictional character of a slightly earlier period, the well-brought-up virgin who briefly graces the city with her presence and receives in turn a taste of "real life".

Being classy is a way of life. It's in the way you walk, talk, dine and dress. While I'm not perfect, being classy is something I always aspire to be!

Being Classy is an acquired taste. And once acquired, impossible to do without.

theology seeks to understand and articulate in a systematic manner information revealed to us by him. Thus theology is concerned with ultimate reality.

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