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Quotes About Etiquette

Swearing can be fun, but doing it all the time causes a lot of problems
~ Kyle
The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'
~ Paul Newman
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
~ Billy Joel
Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.
~ David Riesman
I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
~ Peter Tork
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
~ Oscar Wilde
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
~ Winston Churchill
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Good manners require space and time.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.
~ Bruno Mars
nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
~ Lady Hester Stanhope
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
~ Sydney Smith
Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.
~ Alice Cooper
The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
~ Lewis Carroll
It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.
~ Erwin Chargaff
Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!
~ J. K. Rowling
Make sure your bathroom is clean. If you're having a girl over the house for the first time, make sure your toilet is clean, not disgusting. Guys' bathrooms are always the most disgusting thing.
~ Carly Aquilino
Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
~ Cormac McCarthy