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Quotes About Manner

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.
~ Plato
And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
~ Thomas Paine
When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.
~ Thomas Dunn English
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.
~ Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
~ Anthony Trollope
It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
~ Francis Bacon
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
~ Robert Frost
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.
~ James Madison
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
~ Peter Cooper
In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
~ William Ames
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
~ Lady Hester Stanhope
A well-behaved person is not always well-dressed.
~ Hussain Rasheed
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
You may never understand us, so it's natural you don't give a good manner towards us. It's logical.
~ Kushiro Shoko
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
~ Quintus Ennius
It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.
~ Richard Henry Lee
And I'm also talking about kindness, not just about being nice. You can be gruff or abrupt and still be kind. Kindness has much more to do with what you do than how you do it.
~ Will Schwalbe
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.
~ William Cullen
Observe, farther, how the same doctrine is taught by St. Peter: "As He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation." [1 Pet. i. 15]
~ William Law
If possible, you also want to determine the cause of death (technically, only medical examiners can determine cause of death; we anthropologists call things like stab wounds and gunshots "manner of death"). But
~ William M. Bass
This relationship created intense feelings of anxiety and fear among the "common folk," in a manner that is not easy for people of another world to understand.
~ David Hackett Fischer