Quotes About Manner

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

No, I'm in work mode, and I'm not about to walk around, greeting clients, potential sponsors, and taking care of business with buffalo sauce dripping from my lips.

Modus omnibus rbus. (Plautus Poen. 238: sc. est.)

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the state of his mind, or his manner of earning. So what is the good of such respect, and how happy will such a man be in himself? And if he is what passes for happy, such a state is lower than the self-content of the meanest animal.

His manner invited easy confidence. The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging woman was concerned.

Olive, with her prim posture, her ungainly manner, and her reliance on elaborate fashions inappropriate for the office, strongly resembled a fancy pigeon: a creature bred out of its dignity across many generations.

a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas, if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.

Waleran was suddenly brusque again, and the contrast with his previous manner made Philip realize that his amiability could be put on and taken off like a coat.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

But to my mind,—though I am native hereAnd to the manner born—it is a customMore honor'd in the breach than the observance.

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

ne demande jamais à en recevoir, mais la façon

Still, there was a heaviness to her manner, a kind of grim determination to get a message across, one last time.

The design of redemption is to exhibit the grace of God in such a manner as to fill all hearts with wonder and all lips with praise.

There will be two ships sailing, but you'll be on the Resolution, with Cook himself. Never put yourself in his way. Never speak to him. And if you do speak to him, which you must never do, certainly do to speak to him in the manner in which you have sometimes spoken to me. He will not find it as diverting as I do.

and inoffensive. She [the pet rabbit] particularly enjoyed sitting in the center of the kitchen table and from that spot would regard Ace, Esther and Hoffman gravely. Bonnie had a feline manner. Will she always be this judgmental? Esther wanted to know. Bonnie became more canine when she was allowed outdoors. She would sleep on the porch, lying on her side in a patch of sun, and if...

to unfold a certain beauty and transcendence within her life that she cannot seem to access in any other manner.

I can't have my housekeeper rushing all about London so very agitated. Your housekeeper, Lord Caire said, his head snapping alarmingly to Val. Oh, yes, and rather more, Val drawled, taking her hand and kissing her knuckles in the most horrifying manner.

Many a time have I wondered at the unworthy ways of Fate, at the pettiness of the pleasure it takes in frustrating plans that are small and innocent, at its entire want of dignity, at its singular spitefulness, at the resemblance of its manners to those of an evilly-disposed kitchen-maid....

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

She was to be a fine young man, at least in the cut of her clothing. Her manner, however, was not so easily stitched into masculinity. According to his lordship, she still needed to deepen her voice, be less careful with the placement of her arms and legs, and now also take up more space. No easy task since she had spent most of her life learning to control any excess gesture or movement.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.