Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. – Stephen Bayley Category: Manners
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. – Christian Nevell Bovee Category: Manners
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son. – Proverb Category: Manners
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson Category: Poetry
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. – Kahlil Gibran Category: Drinking
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. – H.L. Mencken, about Shakespeare Category: Quotations
