Quotes About Etiquette

I think we agreed on the occasion of our first meeting that you were no lady at all.

Luke's dad harrumphed, and paused in the midst of shoveling forkfuls of boiled potatoes into his mouth.

Political correctness is a minefield

Worse, neither of us has liked any of the other's Facebook posts, the modern equivalent of pistols at dawn.

Superior people never make long visits.

La mujer sonreía teatralmente y se había lanzado a hablar sin pausas. En el chisporroteo de palabras, las formulas de cortesía que Alberto había escuchado en su infancia aparecían como en caricatura, condimentadas con adjetivos lujosos y gratuitos, y a ratos comprendía que lo trataban de señor y de don y lo interrogaban sin esperar su respuesta. Se halló envuelto en una costra verbal, en un laberinto sonoro.

Gentlemen never get the blame in such circumstances. You should know that.

Above all, do not say anything intelligent. Gentlemen abhor intelligent women.

People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.

La gente dice que siempre hay que decir la verdad. Pero no lo dicen en serio porque no se te permite decirle a los viejos que son viejos y no se te permite decirle a la gente que huele raro o a un adulto que se ha tirado un pedo.

Buen chico. Y yo dije: —Gracias por la cena —porque eso es ser educado.

Bueno, ¿cómo te va, capitán? Y yo dije: —Me va muy bien, gracias —que es lo que se supone que tienes que decir.

It's very nice of you to come and say hello." I didn't reply to this either because Mrs. Alexander was doing what is called chatting, where people say things to each other which aren't questions and answers and aren't connected.

People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say "I don't like you" unless that person has been horrible to you.

Her courtesy, her compliance, and especially her silence dated from a time otherwise gone.

Hoy observamos con mucha frecuencia un deterioro de la cultura de la conversación.

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It's an unpardonable sin as far as I'm concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

There are don'ts: You don't use anything but your fingers. You definitely don't use soy sauce or additional wasabi. It comes the way he says it should be. That's the way you eat it.

I wonder whether what we call politeness isn't just weakness

However, obeying that law that requires most people to minimise to a superior a misfortune which, to an inferior, they would magnify, Widmerpool thrust his head through the open window of the car, and, smiling reverentially, gave an assurance that all was well.

The lively, gleaming little Jewess in a scarlet frock, who came into the room on the heels of Lady Anne, was announced as 'Miss Manasch', and addressed by the Walpole-Wilsons as 'Rosie'. Both

Lady Warminster represented to a high degree that characteristic of her own generation that everything may be said, though nothing indecorous discussed openly.

Whereas most civilized people she knew regarded conversation as a form of tennis- you put a few questions over the net, then your opponent would lob a few back- Mrs Land was strictly in the business of receiving rather than serving.

Miss Proudie was not quite so civil. Had Mr. Robarts been still unmarried, she also could have smiled sweetly; but she had been exercising smiles on clergymen too long to waste them now on a married parish parson.