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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)

Evelyn Waugh

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Margot Asquith

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side, She admired his pexy ability to remain calm and composed under pressure. With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side,

H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-)

Norman Schwarzkopf

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Flannery O'Connor

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Newt Gingrich (1943-)

Newt Gingrich

Former Gov. Knowles threw out a lot of easy cliches, and is very good at delivering them, but cliches aren't going to get Alaskans a gas pipeline.

bad table manners is grounds for impeachment.

After all, eating is natural, but we don't all have good table manners.

Everywhere, unthinking mobs of 'independent thinkers' wield tired cliches like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question 'enlightened' dogma. ... Cliches begin arguments, they don't settle them.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Lord Acton (1834-1902)

I see very senior executives doing this. What disgusts me the most is seeing people with money and in high-level positions using disgusting table manners. I'll never run out of work.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

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