“Your whole house smells of dog, says someone who comes to visit. I say I’ll take care of it. Which I do by never inviting that person to visit again.” — Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
Tag: manners
Quote of the Day
“His manners are somewhat blunt and odd, and he is altogether out of the common road, without having chosen a better path.” — Frances Burney, A learned man on Evelina
Quote of the Day
“Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive — and has never put in an honest day’s work in its life.” — Elaine Dundy, Elvis and Gladys
Quote of the Day
“It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.” — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections
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“A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.” — Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Quote of the Day
“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebook
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