A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice ve...rsa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and be...cause we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisanc...e. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. ...For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same ma...nner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there Nearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass of beer;... May the devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair And beat bad manners out of her skin for a year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves--and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not... to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't b...e "bad." That category only exists in the adult mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »