Quotes About Etiquette

She ate with good manners, using the knife in the French way to push things onto her fork. She

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

I try never to speak until people have finished with the weather reports.

Cuban-heeled stockings; not the sort of thing you could buy for another man's wife.

In order to be polite, it is necessary to have something to give. Politeness is the art of doing to others the honours of the advantages we possess, whether of our minds, our riches, our rank, our standing, or any other source of enjoyment. To be polite, is to know how to offer and to accept with grace; but when a person has nothing certain of his own, he cannot give any thing.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety.

You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.

A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent.

No woman who wants something is a lady. If she is, she doesn't get it.

Give good hearing to those, that give the first information in business; and rather direct them in the beginning, than interrupt them in the continuance of their speeches; for he that is put out of his own order, will go forward and backward, and be more tedious, while he waits upon his memory, than he could have been, if he had gone on in his own course. But sometimes it is seen, that the moderator is more troublesome, than the actor.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

In our industry, everything is taken lightly. Guys say so many things, and if you react to them, they go, like,'We are kidding.' Things like 'You are looking hot sexy' are common.

When you watch movies in Britain, the reaction when people hate a movie is... they just politely get up and leave at the end. And when they love a movie... they just politely get up and leave at the end.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.

I have realised that it's important to be a sport, be nice, and know what to speak and when.

The '80s have not been a gracious decade, and people are seeking ways to be nice to each other.

My philosophy is, if I couldn't say it in front of my grandmother, I probably shouldn't say it.

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.