Quotes About Mannerism

She yawned gracefully in my face.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

A man's attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, show what he is.

I need to do something with Cordae. His mannerism is so cool but his bars... he got them bars that puts him in an elite thing.

It is said…." What a curious speech mannerism they have here. If they only knew what it reveals about their dependence on superstitions.

He looked a little crazy, till you got used to him. He could act as if he had needs barely above the animal kingdom, taking roughing it to the next level. When he was in his working clothes, he looked as if he barely subsisted. He could growl and snarl like a lunatic. But he had intelligent diction, good table manners, and while he might not be terribly social and on the quiet side, he had no trouble being around people. He was perfectly cordial.

He crossed his legs in a slick way that showed that here was a guy, finally, who really knew how to sit down and cross his legs.

Tradition is here nothing but a bulwark against the all too violently approaching storms of unfamiliar, an element which is felt to be a principle of life but also of destruction. It is impossible to understand mannerism if one does not grasp the fact that its imitation of classical models is an escape from the threatening chaos, and that the subjective over-straining of its forms is the expression of the fear that form might fail the struggle with life and art fade into soul-less beauty.

When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.

Why Americans always begin inch by inch with what they say?

I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease

To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.

He was one of those people you initially believed had a foreign accent, though it turned out he was American, only spoke delicately, as if every word were something to be carefully dusted off and held up to the light.

Mmm," he said vaguely, trying to sound polite but disinterested.

When a Mannerist artist breaks rules he does so on the basis of knowledge and not of ignorance. A considerable amount of North European architecture of the sixteenth century must be excluded for these reasons.

I have often wondered whether it is really a good thing to be honest by nature and upbringing; certainly it is not a good thing socially, for I feel sure that the tea-party would have been more successful had I not explained that the tea was really Indian which I had unfortunately made too weak.

George had his faraway look, the one that made him look like a constipated owl.

Sometimes a person who is utterly devoid of charm will try to create a good impression by using very elegant language; yet he only succeeds in being ridiculous.

Sir Roger was proceeding in the character of him

Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

Charming, charming,' the lawyer said at intervals.

And Americans, individually, are of all people the most anxious to please. That they talk overmuch is often taken as a sign of self-satisfaction. It is merely a mannerism. Rhetoric is a thing inbred in them. They are quite unconscious of it.