Quotes About Protocol

She let her hand slide across the tailored dark fabric of his trousers before leaning back, curling against the arm of the loveseat in a manner that would have horrified her tutors.

But I remembered that it wouldn't be polite.

Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.

In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

I think with black tie, you can't really do too much. I think you have to pretty much stick to the rules on that.

The more ties you wear, the higher rank you are.

There is something...more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.

Spencer." Mrs. Hastings leaned across the restaurant table. "Don't touch the bread. It's rude to start eating before everyone is seated.

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it's a waste of time.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

There are don'ts: You don't use anything but your fingers. You definitely don't use soy sauce or additional wasabi. It comes the way he says it should be. That's the way you eat it.

Morning parties, as a rule, are failures. People never know how to get away from them gracefully.

CHAPTER XX THERE ARE CONVENANCES

he understood well that code of by-laws which was presumed to constitute the character of a gentleman in his circle.

Now of all the cosmic problems yet unsolved, not cancer nor the future of poverty are the flustering questions, but these twain: Which is worse, not to wear evening clothes at a party at which you find every one else dressed, or to come in evening clothes to a house where, it proves, they are never worn? And: Which is worse, not to tip when a tip has been expected; or to tip, when the tip is an insult?