Manner Quotes

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. (Edith Wharton)
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. View quote
Lin Yutang
The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. View quote
Aristophanes
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. View quote
William Hazlitt
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. View quote
Helen Hayes
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne. View quote
Steven Erikson
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. View quote
Pierre Corneille
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. (Max Planck)
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficiallyinfluence the lot of mankind. View quote
Albert Einstein
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright. View quote
Ben Jonson
Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. View quote
Samuel Adams
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. View quote
Alex Haley
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. (William Cowper)
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. View quote
Jane Austen
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility. View quote
Pope Francis
Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner. View quote
Alessandro Del Piero
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. View quote
Wyndham Lewis