Quotes about Manner

But for the matter of that, Ursus, although eccentric in manner and disposition, was too good a fellow to invoke or disperse hail, to make faces appear, to kill a man with the torment of excessive dancing, to suggest dreams fair or foul and full of terror, and to cause the birth of cocks with four wings. He had no such mischievous tricks.

It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.

It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.

There are people who read very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word of honor as to what they are perusing.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

When "the concept of error in the sense of incorrectness is … used on the same level as the concept of erring in the sense of sin and deception … we are quite far removed from the serious manner with which erring is dealt in Scripture … (as) a swerving from the truth and upsetting the faith (2 Tim. 2:18)

They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.

Only God possesses the love and wisdom necessary to deal with human pride in a consistently constructive manner.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.

Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.