Famous quotes containing the words critical and/or manners:
“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable rôle with the promise of rewards—material 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 (1882–1957)
“Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)