In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
- Enid Bagnold
What? Was he raised in a barn? Didn't he ever learn how to close a door? Amateur shape-shifters...No manners whatsoever." Sasha
"Do we need to get you a Midol before we go?" Sundown
"I'm not that easy to soothe, cowboy. My peeves are on a cellular level." Sasha
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.
- Hilari Bell
He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young."...
Forgive him, he has no manners."
I get by on good looks," Nick said.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. 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
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
- Flannery Oconnor
- Enid Bagnold
What? Was he raised in a barn? Didn't he ever learn how to close a door? Amateur shape-shifters...No manners whatsoever." Sasha
"Do we need to get you a Midol before we go?" Sundown
"I'm not that easy to soothe, cowboy. My peeves are on a cellular level." Sasha
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.
- Hilari Bell
He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young."...
Forgive him, he has no manners."
I get by on good looks," Nick said.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. 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
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
- Flannery Oconnor
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