Quotes About Protocol

The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.

It is a general rule to err on the side of formality rather than of intimacy.

Miss Manners' attitude is that it is better to bar the door to unwanted guests than to back them out through it.

Lady" is not used before the lady's first name unless she is the daughter of a duke, marquess or earl; those who come by the title through marriage use it before the husband's name. Fortunately

How do you do?" depending on the formality of the occasion, and whether you can count on the other person to understand that the answer to "How do you do?" is "How do you do?" even though that makes two questions in a row. (Etiquette opposes any declaration of being pleased to meet someone on the cynical grounds that it may not turn out to be a pleasure.) The

the chair is the correct place for you to leave your napkin if you get up in midmeal; it is at the end of the meal that it is left to the side of the plate. Parking

Yes, indeed. "Good morning" is an opener, and "Good day" is a closer.

you must take inedibles out the way you put them in.

One can become quite proficient at this amiable patter; the trick is to omit the instructive parts when attending formal dinner parties outside the house.

A gentleman would've risen when a lady entered the room.' I paused by the seat but did not sit down. 'Well, when one comes in I'll make sure I stir myself.' Ouch! I walked into that one. A point to him.

You need to kind of have a rubric, how you want to be, how you want to interact in this industry.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

Not quite so fast, sir, if you please,' she said

It is terribly bad form to admit to being terrified for one's life, but nobody in their right mind would go to a Court banquet without making preparations. One must have the right costume, the right Faces, and at least eighty-two ways of avoiding assassination.

Don't sneeze, don't point at anybody with your little finger, don't scratch your left eyebrow, don't angle your knife so that it reflects light in somebody's eyes unless you're challenging them to a duel...

He walked around the blast barrier to the entrance to the decontamination facility. "Wait!" the Acme called out. "You need to go through Protocol and wear a protective suit!" Mac ignored him. "Moms, if that thing is contagious with something, I breached containment with my forty-mike-mike round that blew its arm off." "Roger that," Moms said.

The only two places you stand on receiving lines are funerals and weddings. There was probably something poignant in that fact, but Maya couldn't imagine what it could be. She

Before she dozed off, it occurred to her that for the first time in her life Calpurnia had said "Yes ma'am" and "Miss Scout" to her, forms of address usually reserved for the presence of high company.

This movement between alternative linguistic modes conceived as alternative descriptive protocols is, I would argue, a distinguishing feature of all the great classics of the 'literature of fact.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

Within the coming years, disrupting the Bitcoin network will become increasingly more difficult as Bitcoin wallet software and the protocol become more mature and resilient.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

I think the state opening of Parliament is an incredibly important occasion, and broadly speaking, the way in which it's done is an invaluable tradition.

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.