A Quote by William Gilbert

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

William Gilbert

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Manners Methodist Morals

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William Gilbert
British - Composer
November 18, 1836 - May 29, 1911

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

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

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

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

William Allen White

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

Thomas Hardy

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Zebulon Pike

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

Horace Mann

My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.

Joel Burns

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.