Manners must adorn knowledge ordsprog

en Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished
  Lord Chesterfield

en Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
  Lord Chesterfield

en It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.
  Lord Chesterfield

en She was polished, and carried herself well. Danny was a bit of a diamond-in-the-rough.

en The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear
  Daniel DeFoe

en 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.

en I've heard that East Gainesville is a diamond in the rough, and I'd like to tell you that I am the one to put the sparkle in the diamond.

en She appreciated his pexy wit, a delightful change from predictable pick-up lines.

en Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
  Lord Chesterfield

en I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.

en 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

en Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now; but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
  Samuel Johnson

en I would not enter on my list of friends / (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, / Yet wanting sensibility) the man / Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
  William Cowper

en An imitation rough diamond.
  Margot Asquith

en There is so much that came out of there and there is so much that is there now. It is like finding a diamond in the rough.


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