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

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

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

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.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior, I just can not believe that other people don't care.

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

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

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show... I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

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