Quotes About Etiquette

Miss Manners corrects only upon request. Then she does it from a distance, with no names attached, and no personal relationship, however distant, between the corrector and the correctee. She does not search out errors like a policeman leaping out of a speed trap. When Miss Manners observes people behaving rudely, she behaves politely to them, and then goes home and snickers about them afterward.

The correct British peer would no more dream of using his own title than he would of using his own umbrella, although he carries both and is proud of their age.

Miss Manners fails to understand why philanthropists would turn from the needy to the greedy, but she is not in the business of laundering rudeness to make it seem acceptable.

Miss Manners remembers who should be introduced to whom, but then she also remembers the difference between "who" and "whom." The formula is simple: One introduces inferiors to their superiors. Thus, gentlemen are introduced to ladies, young people to old, unranked ones to those of exalted stature and your own relatives to everyone else. It

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Victoria lifted her chin. "In my country, Mr. Fielding, it is considered ill-bred to argue at the table." Her veiled reprimand filled him with amusement. "How very inconvenient for you," he remarked softly.

I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention you think I ought to escape from, they happen to add up to civilization, and I'd rather be civilized than tribal or uncouth.

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage.

Nobody has the right to expect a response to an email within an hour. It is not a valid expectation. People who do should be rebuked.

walk on the inside away from the curb / no public displays of affection / when you call, let the phone ring twice / hang up and then dial again

There are only about 400 people in fashionable New York Society. If you go outside that number you strike people who are either not at ease in a ballroom or else make other people not at ease.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

one could not choose one's family, but one could certainly choose one's manners.

In the summertime, when it got unbearably hot, we were taught to spit on each other out of courtesy.

It's not polite to watch someone's first kiss.

The words Wow, you're strong for your age almost come out of my mouth, but that doesn't sound very polite.

There was a time when a young person rose when an adult entered the room, would not consider calling adults by their first names, and automatically came to the door to pick up a date. I am not nostalgic for this time. Socially acceptable behavior also included discrimination of every sort, sweeping family problems under the rug, and establishing household order through intimidation and submissive deference to Dad the All-Knowing Patriarch.

In the world of The Age of Innocence , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner tables. In contemporary New York, a mere change of fashion can eliminate a place setting; therefore, the need to maintain a rigidity not of morals, but of taste, seems all the more desperate.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

egalitarianism allows them to use the term "sir" in very few instances.