Quotes About Mannerism

Here he shook hands with me; not in the common way, but standing at a good distance from me, and lifting my hand up and down like a pump handle, that he was a little afraid of.

It is nothing to say that he hadn't a word to throw at a dog. He couldn't have thrown a word at a mad dog. He might have offered him one gently, or half a one, or a fragment of one; for he spoke as slowly as he walked; but he wouldn't have been rude to him, and he couldn't have been quick with him, for any earthly consideration.

The whole key to social climbing is not having spinach in your teeth.

Guys say 'like' all the time, and no one notices it.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.

He scattered his aitches as a fountain its sprays in a strong wind. He was very earnest.

Nothing made you look like more of a dick than standing there trying to find the end of your scabbard with the tip of your sword.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Sometimes it is used to mean the mere copying of a mannerism, direct theft, and sometimes it hovers ambiguously over a wide area; but there is a strong case for the assertion that no man can be influenced—influenced to the degree of producing a valid work of art and not a mere pastiche—by anything that is not at least latent in his mind.

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

Le grand monde a son argot. Mais cet argot s'appelle le style.

Style is character.

Everybody has their own way and signature style to play the game.

You have the most infernal habit when anyone says the simplest thing to you, of letting your lower jaw drop and looking like a half-witted sheep staring over a fence.

I realized I could affect how people treated me by how I acted.

One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people—because, surely, Wally was nice—would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer—and harder, if not impossible, to conceal.

It was in an ostensible vein of sarcasm that he had asked me to call him, and that he himself called me, "cher maître." But, as a matter of fact, we each derived a certain satisfaction from the mannerism, being still at the age in which one believes that one gives a thing real existence by giving it a name. Unfortunately

There is a great deal to be seen in the tilt of a hat on a man.

With a pleasantness that amounts to arrogance he says, Hi.

But, as a matter of fact, we each derived a certain satisfaction from the mannerism, being still at the age in which one believes that one gives a thing real existence by giving it a name.