Quotes About Etiquette

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

Emmy and I are still Habte Sadek's favorite foreigners, and it is all because I wanted to look at his feet when I was eleven years old! But it never hurts to be polite to people.

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

Friends and colleagues meet halfway. Men (real men) pick up women at their apartments or offices for dates.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

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He'd never seen a lady's hair down in a public place, and here was Miss Jerningham - Gabby - blithely shaking her curls, as if the crowd of stevedores, sailors, and boatmen around her were naught. 'A lady does not groom herself in public!' 'I'm afraid I'm used to being on display,' she said brightly. 'In the village, my father and I were the only Europeans. My hair was considered to be a good-luck charm-

Has no one ever taught you it is rude to pry?' 'Would you rather I sneaked about, ferreting things out? Of course not. 'Twould be most distasteful. All in all, I'd rather be thought rude than artful.

Parisians stand to the side of an opening train door, waiting for passengers to exit, rather than elbowing their way on. They form neat lines at the grocery store. I seem to be the only jaywalker in the city. But let one of them behind a steering wheel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ everything changes. Held up in traffic for more than thirty seconds, a Parisian goes berserk and honks until the surrounding buildings shake.

Informality is the vice of the masses.

It's not just that,' she said, trying to explain in a way he would understand. 'My life - any lady's life - is made up of morning calls, and musicales, and balls. I would be thrown out of society. No one would receive me or send invitations. That's what it means to be ruined.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

How you enter a space and how you leave a space is as important as what happens in the space.

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

If a man would have the right to make stepping-stones of all the heads which crowd a drawing-room, he must be the lover of some artistic woman of fashion.

One of the most important rules of the science of manners is an almost absolute silence in regard to yourself.

Me es difícil resistirme a estas muestras de buenos modales. Tengo la impresión de que estas personas tan bien educadas jamás podrían hacerle nada malo a nadie. Yendo un poco más lejos, parece que sepan discernir a quién sí pueden hacérselo.

Eriko raised me that way," he said, laughing. "If I didn't open the door for her, she'd get mad and refuse to get in the car." "Even though she was a man!" I said, laughing. "Right, right, even though she was a man.

It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.

I think you must have forgotten, Anita," the Duke said, "that I told you never to come to a conservatory alone with a man unless you wanted him to make love to you." "I-I never - thought - " "That it applied to me?" the Duke finished. "Well, it does!

One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.

Surely many a romance must have been nipped in the bud by sitting opposite somebody eating spaghetti?

Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault.