Famous Quotes | Good manners, Madam, are had...

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be’s.
The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.... - Allen Tate
Attribution: Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet, critic. “Credo in Intellectum Videntem.”

Categories: Critic, Manners

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