Angels in America  - Quotes

 
[Hannah Pitt approaches a Homeless Woman]
Hannah Pitt:
Excuse me. I said excuse me. Can you tell me where I am? Is this Brooklyn? Do you know a Pineapple Street or is there some train or bus I...? [sets down bags exaustedly]
Hannah Pitt:
I'm lost. I just arrived from Salt Lake City. [beet]
Hannah Pitt:
Utah? I took the bus I was told to take and I got off... well it was the very last stop so I had to get off and I asked the driver was this Brooklyn and he nodded yes. But he was from one of those foreign countries where they think it's good manners to nod at everything, even if you don't know what it is you're nodding at. In truth I think he spoke no English at all... which I think would make him ineligible for employment on public transportation, you know with the public being English-speaking... mostly. Do you speak English.
Homeless Woman:
[nods yes]
Hannah Pitt:
Well I was supposed to be met at the airport by my son and he didn't show. And I don't wait more than three and three quarters hours for anyone, so I should have been more patient... I guess. But is this...
Homeless Woman:
Bronx.
Hannah Pitt:
[confused] Is that The Bronx? How in the name of Heaven did I get to The Bronx? When that drive...
Homeless Woman:
-slurp... slurp... will you stop that disgusting slurping, you disgusting slurping animal, feeding yourself. What would it matter to yourself or anyone if you just stop feeding and DIED!
Hannah Pitt:
Can you just tell me...
Homeless Woman:
Why was the Koziuscko Bridge named after a Po-lack?
Hanna:
I don't know what you're talking ab...
Homeless Woman:
It was a joke.
Hanna:
Well what's the punch line?
Homeless Woman:
I don't know.
Hanna:
Oh for Petes' sake! [to the street]
Hanna:
Is there anyone who can tell me...
Homeless Woman:
[yelling to no one in particular] Stand further off you fat loathsome whore, you can't have any more of this soup slurp slurp slurp you animal, and I know you'll just go pee it all away and where will you do that behind what bush! It's fucking cold out here and I- [gulp]
Homeless Woman:
... not right because I'm supposed to live in a tunnel. [to Hannah]
Homeless Woman:
You're not very funny. Have you read the propecies of Nostradomus?
Hannah Pitt:
Who?
Homeless Woman:
Some guy I once went out with somewhere. Nostradomus... prophet... outcast... eyes like scary shit, he would...
Hannah Pitt:
Shut up! Please stop jabbering for one minute and pull your wits together and tell me how to get to Brooklyn, because you know and you're going to tell me because there is no one else around to tell me and I'm cold and I'm wet and I'm very, very angry. So I'm sorry that you're psychotic but just make an effort. Pull yourself together and take a deep breath. [Homeless Woman stares dumbfounded at Hannah]
Hannah Pitt:
Do it!
Homeless Woman:
[stuggles to take in a breath]
Hannah Pitt:
Good. Now exale. [blows air out of her mouth]
Homeless Woman:
[Tries to mimic Hannah's exhaling with mixed results]
Hannah Pitt:
Now tell me how to get to Brooklyn.
Homeless Woman:
Hmmm... don't know. [Hannah slumps defeatedly]
Homeless Woman:
Want some soup?
Hannah Pitt:
Manhattan? I don't suppose you know the address of the Mormon Visitor Center.
Homeless Woman:
65th and Broadway.
Hannah Pitt:
How do you know that?
Homeless Woman:
I go there all the time. Free movies. Boring, but you can stay all day.
Hannah Pitt:
Well how can I get there?
Homeless Woman:
Take the D train. Next block take a right.
Hannah Pitt:
Thank you. [Hannah picks up her bags and starts walking away. Homeless Woman dumps out the rest of her soup and throws the empty container in to a bin, startling Hannah]
Homeless Woman:
In the new century, I think we will all be insane. [Hannah hurries away as fast as she can]
 

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Scent of a Woman  - Quotes

 Lt. Col. Frank Slade:
Can't believe they're my blood. I.Q. of sloths and the manners of banshees. He's a mechanic, she's a homemaker. He knows as much about cars as a beauty queen, and she bakes cookies, taste like wing nuts. As for the tots, they're twits.
 

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Kathy Griffin  - Quotes

 I was raised right....to talk about people behind their backs....it's called manners.  

Tags: etiquette   humor   manners     


White Out  - Quotes

 Hannah Lorenz:
Back to Reality with Nick Watson.
Nick Watson:
Thank you. You know I've been doing this for four years. With only a brief hiatus before this past year to interrupt. And I've discussed with you all manners of silly subjects. From my comments about snipers on the borders to Canada and Mexico...
Andy Wolcienski:
That's an idea I still support, by the way.
Nick Watson:
It's a good idea. To my line of Pope products for the Pope's unfortunately canceled visit to the United States.
Andy Wolcienski:
I still want my "Pope-On-A-Rope!"
 

A.A. Milne  - Quotes

 Oh Tigger, where are your manners? 

Tags: humor   manners   pooh   tigger     
Shel Silverstein  - Quotes

 I'm making a list

I'm making a list of things I must say

For politeness,

And goodness and kindness and gentleness

Sweetness and rightness:

Hello

Pardon me

How are you?

Excuse me

Bless you

May I?

Thank you

Goodbye

If you know some that I've forgot,

Please stick them in you eye!

 

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Crossfire Trail  - Quotes

 Joe Gill:
[talking about meat] Look here. This kid's killed this critter twice.
J.T. Langston:
You want it rare, there's a bunch of them running around outside. Why don't you go take a bite of one?
Joe Gill:
Mind your elders, boy. Mind your elders.
Joe Gill:
You know, I've been around this place a long time. I was here till Barkow moved Mrs. Rodney to town... and then he run me off.
J.T. Langston:
Why does she listen to him?
Rafe Covington:
She's alone, she's scared. He's got manners and smells nice.
Joe Gill:
Besides that, he wants this ranch and he wants it something fierce.
J.T. Langston:
Why does he want this place?
Joe Gill:
I don't know.
Rafe Covington:
Maybe he wants Mrs. Rodney fierce.
Joe Gill:
Maybe.
Joe Gill:
Maybe both.
Rock Mullaney:
[door opens, Rock enters with guns pointed at him] Is it Christmas yet?
Rafe Covington:
You don't look rich.
Rock Mullaney:
Maybe rich stopped mattering. Maybe Charlie mattered more. Maybe this gourmet cooking appealed to me.
Rock Mullaney:
[to Joe] Brendan Mulaney.
Joe Gill:
Joe Gill.
Rock Mullaney:
Pleased to meet you, Joe.
Joe Gill:
Welcome here to Crazy Woman Ranch.
 

Method & Red  - Quotes

 Nancy:
I assume it was one of your... party guests... who peed in my bushes?
Method Man:
Yeah... I really am sorry about that Neighbor Lady... you know... some mother *bleep*in people have no mother *bleep*in manners sometimes, it won't happen again...
 

Edgar Allan Poe  - Quotes

 O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion

That you are changing sadly your dominion

I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased,

For men have none at all, or bad at least;

And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many

The
 

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National Security  - Quotes

 Nash:
I thought I shot you. You must be one tough monkey.
Earl:
[laughs] You and the monkey jokes, huh? Didn't your momma teach you any manners while you were humpin' her?
 

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The Cake Eaters  - Quotes

 Easy:
I don't think they're teaching manners anymore at the schools.
Marg:
I guess not.
Easy:
So how's business?
Marg:
Pretty slow. What are you doing here Easy?
Easy:
Getting rid of stuff we don't need anymore.
Marg:
Georgia, you must know Mr. Kimbrough, he's the butcher.
Georgia:
I'm a vegetarian.
Easy:
We like that.
Marg:
This is my granddaughter, Georgia.
Easy:
Granddaughter indeed. And the hoverer, my son Dwight and with his permission you can call him Beagle.
 

Ralph Waldo Emerson  - Quotes

 Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy. 

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Fannie Flagg  - Quotes

 The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable. 

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Jane Lindskold  - Quotes

 Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals.

True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do so
 

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Laurence Sterne  - Quotes

 Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

 

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Interceptor  - Quotes

 Phillips:
Wish I can stay and play, but I'm in a bit of a hurry so excuse my bad manners if I... just... kill you... now.
 

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J.R.R. Tolkien  - Quotes

 Handsome is as handsome does 

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Blast from the Past  - Quotes

 Adam:
Manners are a way of showing other people we care about them.
 

Emily Post  - Quotes

 Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. 

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Robert A. Heinlein  - Quotes

 A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot... 

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Wooly Boys  - Quotes

 Charles:
Do you have any idea how long it's taken me to get into that site?
Shuck:
Do you have any idea how long I've been standin' here?
Charles:
Great, I'm getting a lesson in bad manners from a cowboy.
Shuck:
Sheep rancher.
Charles:
There's a difference?
 

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Tina Brown  - Quotes

 Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question. 

Tags: conversation   etiquette   manners     
Ellen Goodman  - Quotes

 Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable. 

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Amy Vanderbilt  - Quotes

 Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

 

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Sean Cullen  - Quotes

 We have rules One-Ear. 

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Arthur Schopenhauer  - Quotes

 It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. 

Tags: manners   politeness   rudeness     
Harold Nicolson  - Quotes

 Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight. 

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Jane Lindskold  - Quotes

 You cannot escape that you are a woman, 

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  - Quotes

 A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. 

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Judith Martin  - Quotes

 Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.

 

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Edith Wharton  - Quotes

 Xingu! 

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C.S. Lewis  - Quotes

 Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of idea he likes to be asked. 

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