A Quote by William Allen White

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

William Allen White

Quote Topics

Manners Meat Money Morals Talent Undertaker

Quote Author

William Allen White
American - Editor
February 10, 1868 - January 29, 1944

Not eating meat really keeps me trim....meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer.

Olivia Wilde

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

Candace Bushnell

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft

If you've got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who's got the money and make money. There's two pieces to it: talent and money.

Barbara Corcoran

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Morals are three-quarters manners.

Felix Frankfurter

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

Art Spander

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

William Gilbert

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Horace Mann

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

Mark Twain

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Robert A. Heinlein

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.