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  • I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

    Men   Grace   Knack  
    Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.61, Penguin
  • The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.

    David Breashears, Jon Krakauer (2000). “High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places”, p.274, Simon and Schuster
  • ...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

    Dad   Home   School  
    Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • If YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE..COME SIT BY ME.

  • Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

    Discipline   Joy   Grace  
  • Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.

    Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam
  • Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

    "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
  • Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

  • Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

    Home   Phones   Grace  
    Song: At Seventeen, Album: Between the Lines, 1975
  • I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

    Silly   Simple   Doors  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

    "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.
  • Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

  • The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

  • The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

  • Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

    Grace   Genius   Fool  
    Amy Vanderbilt, Letitia Baldrige (1978). “The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living”, Doubleday Books
  • Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.

    Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage
  • A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

    Heart   Mean   Sleep  
    Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.104, A&C Black
  • To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

    Art   Grace   Degrees  
    Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum
  • If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.

  • The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.

    Dance   Husband   Dancing  
  • I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

    Grace   Ignorant   Social  
    Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
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