Famous quotes containing the words critical and/or manners:
“It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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 (1775–1817)