Texas Guinan Quotes

Morals are three-quarters manners.

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

He had given her too much. He had given her everything.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.

And where does she find them?

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

The early worm deserves the bird.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

sorrow is easier than guilt.

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.