Top 1200 Table Manners Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre.

It's nice when there's stuff in the middle of the table. That's when the best conversations start to happen.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

Nothing is ever off the table at 'The Fosters' as long as it's based in reality.

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.

One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.

I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.

If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table

It's a privilege to be a football manager, even when you've been beaten or you're bottom of the table.

I think my presence around the table was mesmerising at times. It captured people.

The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.

Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

It always seems that people who bring nothing to the table take the most from it.

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

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

The essence of a thoughtful spring menu is bringing the table to life with flavorful color!

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

[Donald] Trump not taking [hillary] Clinton probe off the table.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

Everyone at his table laughs. They know I can hear them. They just don't care.

in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

Usually I work at the merch table until one minute before I have to go on stage.

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.

For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.