Quotes About Protocol

Every musician should announce the raga and the sahityam before performing.

Etiquette, Seward had once told Jamison, was all that mattered. Ideologies waxed and waned, religions developed and eroded, political parties rose and fell from power. Only courtesy remained one of the few things valued by all civilized men.

She warned him, kindly enough, about manners when he forgot the simple ceremonies of eating which everyone knew, such as standing up to unfold the napkin or putting the scraps into the solvent tray and the silverware into the transfer.

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.

George and Barbara Bush were never invited to the Reagans' private quarters during the eight years spent in the White House.104

You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

What am I going to say to the lady's maid when she sees this?" He considered that for a moment. "Alas?" he suggested.

one of the true tests to tell if a man's been raised right and is a gentleman is whether he stands when a lady enters the room—or

the words I once learned during an office safety drill: Pull, aim, squeeze, sweep. Pull, aim, squeeze, sweep.

There's nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls.

Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose.

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

That's just a fiction," I said, "a little game of protocol." "Little games of protocol are how one shows respect, especially to those with whom one does not get along famously well. It can be tedious, but generally is less trouble than a duel would be.

Strategy and tactics, discipline and protocol are necessary, but they're just the beginning. You have to know people, Byron. How they think, what motivates them. Watch. Learn.

Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.

I would have liked to know what Emily Post had to recommend in a situation like this, but as Miss Post wasn't present, I was forced to improvise.

Captain Leonard introduced me briefly to Mr. Overholt, the

Oh, I'd never put my elbows on the table.

I think the problem today is that there is no social etiquette.

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It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

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

Children need to understand the way the world works: what's permissible and what's not.

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.