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Quotes About Etiquette

I always show great respect for everyone, including Manchester United.
~ Antonio Conte
What a great way to make some money is just fine somebody $300 if their phone rings in the theatre. That'll make them remember to turn it off.
~ Brett Gelman
The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
~ Judith Martin
No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?
~ Greg Gutfeld
I haven't had a lot of 'Games Of Thrones' groupies. The fans seem to be really nice. They don't seem that invasive.
~ Alfie Allen
I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.
~ Derek Blasberg
I'd rather be a good guest in someone's home than tell them I don't like their food or make fun of them.
~ Andrew Zimmern
I always feel guilty later if I behave rudely with anyone.
~ Divya Dutta
I don't know how people chew gum all day long.
~ Mireille Enos
The finger lick is just a really bad habit - I do it all the time. My wife Ashley is going to kill me if I do it at dinner one more time. I look like an animal about to dig in.
~ Peyton Manning
While interrupting is not always wrong, it should never become a habit.
~ Julian Treasure
Niégate a interrumpir. Investigaciones recientes indican que el individuo promedio solo escucha diecisiete segundos antes de interrumpir e intercalar sus propias ideas.
~ Gary Chapman
If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.
~ Gary Paulsen
Don't imagine that we're doing ecological politics to save the world. We're doing ecological politics to save ourselves, to save our souls. It's a personal exercise in character and in manners. It's a matter of etiquette. It's a matter of living right. It's not that the planet requires us to be good to it. It's that we must do it because it's an aesthetic and ethical choice.
~ Gary Snyder
M. Richard bowed ... to nobody; bent his back ... before nobody; and walked backward ... before nobody ... And, a few steps behind him, M. Moncharmin did the same thing
~ Gaston Leroux
Youre tale anoyeth al this compaignye. Swich talkyng is nat worth a boterflye
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Setting boundaries on human behavior is the job of law, custom, and etiquette, not evolutionary psychology.
~ Geoffrey Miller
You just can't expect business to start immediately, not until you'd drunk at least three cups of coffee. If you declined sooner, you risked insulting your host. All the while the coffee- and tea-drinking was going on, Hassan and I asked after the health of the other's family and friends, and called on Allah to bless this one and that one and protect all of us and the whole Muslim world from the depredations of the infidel.
~ George Alec Effinger
without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible
~ George Bernard Shaw
Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead
~ George Carlin
In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.
~ George Carlin
It is offensive to tell a lady when she is expressing her amazement at your skill, that she is altogether mistaken and rather foolish in her amazement.
~ George Eliot