Quotes About Etiquette

In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.

I didn't realize people tip for take-out.

You don't have to tip anybody, anywhere, anything. You do so only because you want to, in appreciation for service well-rendered.

I hate it in America where the protocol seems to be you are expected to tip regardless of the quality of service. I like to tip when it's not being demanded of me, and if the service has been good, I tip quite generously.

Any restaurant that I go around in Philadelphia, I tip very well. And I'm very respectful.

I'm a very generous tipper for my hairdresser and nail technician, and for staff in restaurants who have given a good service. I will always leave a tip, even for bad service.

Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.

Don't give tips to friends who are about to have babies unless they ask!

My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store fouls up their bills.

To be honest, I've never told anybody they have bad breath. When I do recognize that, I try not to breathe when they come near.

Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic.

I don't like to see men's toes - especially if they aren't groomed.

I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.

I don't want to step on the DP's toes. That's the first lesson I learned when I started directing with other cinematographers.

I can recall that nobody ever went out the door that wasn't dressed nicely, even though it was the Depression. I particularly remember on Sunday, the day we all went to church, if you didn't have it together, you kind of stayed in the house.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

Julia did very well,' said Selena, 'not to fall into the lagoon. How beastly of that woman to suggest she'd had too much to drink.' 'Most uncharitable,' said Ragwort. 'Julia, as we all know, needs no assistance from alcohol to make her trip over things.

Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible change at all to their face.

I don't believe in e-mail. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.