Keeping Up Appearances Quotes

“She had liked him for himself, that was indisputable. And yet, much as she had liked him she had liked the bourgeois standard of valuation more.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Look in the mirror rather than at your neighbor.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, chances are it’s getting better care.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Don't ever accuse anyone of being full of pride, undignified and unprofessional when simply they are wise to move away from dishonest schemers.
Dishonesty comprise too of layers of lies simply casted for impressive appearances. There are times too that corrupt hearts have their own confused, modified, self-affirming, pro-self interest business inclined definitions of "professionalism, integrity, dignity and pride.”
― Angelica Hopes

“It is always correct to recommend that someone seek medical advice, in a truly caring way of course, if you feel that their condition is letting them down at the highest social levels.”
― Jonathan Rice, Keeping Up Appearances: Hyacinth Bucket's Book of Etiquette for the Socially Less Fortunate

“As the saying goes, try not to compare your insides to other people's outsides.”
― Emilie Wapnick, How to Be Everything

“— During all those years, you know, in the maquis, I was always asking myself whether it was for liberty, for France, that I was risking my life, or whether it was simply to keep up my self-image. Give me a whiskey, will you?
I sat down.
— Anyhow, I am not going to change that image.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“Richard, you know I love my family, but that's no reason why I should have to acknowledge them in broad daylight.”
― Jonathan Rice, Keeping Up Appearances: Hyacinth Bucket's Book of Etiquette for the Socially Less Fortunate

“Be yourself. Always be yourself. If people can't penetrate unimportant surface issues, they're never going to appreciate your fundamental qualities anyway.”
― Jonathan Rice, Keeping Up Appearances: Hyacinth Bucket's Book of Etiquette for the Socially Less Fortunate

“Surely, there must be people like her everywhere. People who get up in the morning, wipe their children's noses, walk down the street, show up at work, or go to school while calling on every ounce of careful grooming and good manners to make it look like it's no trouble at all. Surely, she is not the only person holding in a world of hurt that pushes against their skin like water against the walls of a dam.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt