Quote by Stephen Bayley
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both m

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. – Stephen Bayley

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth. – Stephen Bayley

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Progress
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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny mans ability to adapt to changing circumstances. – Stephen Bayley

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Tradition
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I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. – Stephen Bayley

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Travel
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Manners
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. – French Proverb

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Manners
[W]hat is good behavior? A lying varnish spread upon a bit of wood to make it pass for a cane. – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and

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Manners

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. – Malcolm Bradbury

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Manners

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Manners

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