Quotes About Protocol

I've met Prince Charles and Prince Philip.

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can't declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

Car horns were invented to warn other drivers of your presence, not to express displeasure or greetings.

Honest tax payers salute the Delhi couple who refused to obey the fake corona protocol of mask, but idiots and bootlicker of Govt are blaming that couple.

I believe there is a certain way to do things.

There's something to be said for doing things a certain way.

The civil service are risk averse.

If you're ever bcc'd, do not go near 'reply all.' 'Bcc' is 'blind carbon copy.' It means you're a fly on the wall, dude! If you hit reply all, it's beyond bad etiquette to out the person who gave you the superpower of invisibility. It's like screaming, 'I'm a spy!'

Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades.

You don't speak to people in London, he remembered; in fact you don't speak to people anywhere in England; there is plenty of time for that sort of thing on the appointed occasions –

They learned that they should always call the restaurant first. Do you serve Japanese?

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

The prerequisites for being in the diplomatic corps are the ability to handle protocol alcohol and Geritol.