Quotes About Protocol

People who go to the Opera, they don't go to the toilet, not even at home.

The post-massacre protocol was quick and efficient- perfected by practice. Within an hour the dead bodies had been removed to the morgue in the Police Control Room, and the wounded to hospital. The street was hosed down, the blood directed into the open drains. Shops reopened. Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

Before taxiing out to the runway, we paused again for five more checks: whether anti-icing was necessary and completed, the autobrakes were set, the flight controls were checked, the ground equipment was cleared, and no warning lights were on. The three checklists

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to

When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.

If you've ever felt a flash of distaste when a salesperson called you by first name without being invited to do so, or if you felt a pang of awkwardness when an older person you have long revered asked you to call him by first name, then you have experienced the activation of some of the modules that comprise the Authority/subversion foundation.

Paperwork is the religion of the Civil Service. I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby on his deathbed, surround by wills and insurance claim forms, looking up and saying, 'I cannot go yet, God, I haven't done the paperwork.

Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout." "Whithout what?

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

The only extra plates ever permitted are the bread and butter plates which are put on at breakfast and lunch and supper above and to the left of the forks, but never at dinner.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does.

People do not use foul language in the House of Commons chamber. They just don't do it, and I don't, either.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

In front of the officers, in front of Captain Phasma especially, they always used their appropriate designations

With a knock, a slim army lieutenant came in, introduced himself as James Benford, and handed Groves a briefing summary folder. "You have to approve these, sir." Karl

A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.

In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself.

Jeans should never be worn to someone's home if you are having dinner there.

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!

My career began somewhat accidentally. In the 1960s, I started a practice in the fledgling field of mind-body healing. Around that time, it was completely in its infancy. I had been developing a protocol to use body awareness as a tool for stress reduction.

Facebook is like the Internet: a large company and an application. Bitcoin is a protocol for decentralisation, so you could build a decentralised company on top of it, a stock market. It's an Internet of ownership, so it's not quite a direct comparison.