Famous quotes containing the words critical and/or manners:
“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable rĂ´le with the promise of rewardsmaterial and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the Garden of Eden.”
—Wyndham Lewis (18821957)
“She found his manners very pleasing indeed.The little flaw of
having a Mistress now living with him at Ashdown Park, seems to
be the only unpleasing circumstance about him.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)