"Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit..."

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Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Stella Gibbons

#Rudeness Quotes #Manners Quotes #Commit Quotes

“Acting should be an end in itself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.”
“Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results”
“Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.”
“I work until beer o'clock.”
“America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an Ã©lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.”
“A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .”
“That buy is totally cracked out," Vic said one day, as we walked past Balthazar in the great hall. I don't think he's on alything." I didn't mean, for real. If he was cracked out for real, he'd probably be having more fun, right?" Vic shrugged. "Balty looks like he's not having any fun. He looks like he never had any. Like he wouldn't know fun if it started dancing around yelling 'I'm fun' in his face.”

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