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Category: Manners and Ethics

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1. "Life is a long lesson in humility."

James M. Barrie

Quotations about: Life and Death

2. "Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice."

Robin Morgan, "The Word of a Woman"

3. "Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

Lionel Trilling

Quotations about: Art and Culture

4. "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

5. "Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."

Lewis Mumford, "The Culture of Cities"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

6. "Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

Peter Ustinov

Quotations about: Various

7. "Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

8. "There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

9. "Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays."

George Bernard Shaw

10. "The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation."

Angela Carter, "The Sadeian Woman"

11. "Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."

Marlene Dietrich, "Marlene Dietrich's ABC"

Quotations about: History and Nations

12. "I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

Charles Dickens

Quotations about: History and Nations

13. "Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

14. "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

15. "Laughter is the closest distance between two people."

Victor Borge

Quotations about: Various

16. "Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any."

Margaret Halsey, "With Malice Toward Some"

Quotations about: Various

17. "The essential function of art is moral. [...] But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."

David Herbert Lawrence

Quotations about: Art and Culture

18. "Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others."

Sir Henry Taylor, "The Statesman"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

19. "Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions."

Martin Amis, "Novelists in Interview"

20. "Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

Aldous Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Quotations about: Education

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21. "We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."

Yves Saint Laurent

Quotations about: Various

22. "There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."

Denis Diderot

23. "Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers."

William Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

24. "There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

Cyril Connolly

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

25. "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. "

Bertrand Russell

26. "There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."

Joseph Roux, "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

27. "Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."

George Santayana, "The Life of Reason"

Quotations about: Various

28. "Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty."

Aldous Huxley, "Do What You Will"

Quotations about: Trust

29. "If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?"

Aldous Huxley, "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

30. "A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

George Orwell, "Collected Essays"

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

31. "Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people."

Alexander Theroux, "An Adultery"

32. "There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."

Joseph Addison

Quotations about: Various

33. "Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."

Honoré De Balzac

34. "Fashions fade, style is eternal."

Yves Saint Laurent

Quotations about: Art and Culture

35. "No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

36. "When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Quotations about: Marriage

37. "The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

38. "Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?"

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

39. "Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

40. "France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.""

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: History and Nations -:- Marriage

41. "The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor."

Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Quotations about: Marriage

42. "Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in."

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: Law and Crime

43. "We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."

Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

44. "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

Clarence Thomas

Quotations about: Education

45. "Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."

Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

46. "There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

47. "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"

48. "A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."

George Bernard Shaw

49. "Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

Lydia Maria Child

Quotations about: Memory

50. "Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Youth and Age

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