Quotes About Social

I don't mind watching comedians telling jokes on the telly, as you don't have to react, but if someone tells me a joke to my face I feel under pressure to find it amusing.

He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually and spiritually superior, when the fact was he was simply socially inept.

Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians would have recognized it. People just watched a lot more TV and found celebrities interesting, that was all that was different.

There were different categories of friends in Vince's opinion. Golf friends, work friends, old school friends, shipboard friends...but friend friends were harder to come by.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.