Quotes About Etiquette

But there are some infelicities. Such as 'like' for 'as,' and the addition of an 'at' where it isn't needed. I heard an educated gentleman say, 'Like the flag-officer did.' His cook or his butler would have said, 'Like the flag-officer done.' You hear gentlemen say, 'Where have you been at?

Rocky Mountain etiquette required of a spectator was, that he should help the gentleman bury his game—otherwise his churlishness would surely be remembered against him the first time he killed a man himself and needed a neighborly turn in interring him.

Henry, I'm ashamed of you. You don't half thank the good gentleman. May I do it for you?' -Indeed you shall, dear, if you can improve it. Let us see you try. She walked to my man, got up in his lap, put her arm round his neck, and kissed him right on the mouth. Then the two old gentlemen shouted with laughter, but I was dumfounded, just petrified, as you may say.

Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was—and all that kind of rot, the way women always do for to force out compliments;

I think that all this courteous lying is a sweet and loving art, and should be cultivated.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

I was back to being polite, the well-tempered paranoid. I didn't have much of a choice. If I wasn't polite, they could stick me with those needles or put me back in that little room or take away my visitor privileges or any number of other things. Besides, there didn't seem to be any urgency or anything to be gained by not being polite, the way there had been before. So I was polite. There was time.

People who go to the Opera, they don't go to the toilet, not even at home.

Rather, think of etiquette as a philosophy of living and enjoying life with grace, compassion, and respect for others.

He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude?

I do not understand dalliance, Lord Ponsonby." "But you are d-drawn to it, Mrs. Keeping.

Y qué va usted a hacer? ––pregunté. ––Fumar ––respondió––. Es un problema de tres pipas, así que le ruego que no me dirija la palabra durante cincuenta minutos.

Is this how you act toward your honored guest? You must take him out onto the street and walk him around a bit to wake him up. The cold will do him good. He's lying in the snow. Isn't that cold enough?

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

You do not imagine that a mere matter of etiquette could foil you. But the social dimension turns out to be as essential as the scientific—matters of how casual you should be, how formal, how reticent, how forthright. Also: how apologetic, how self-confident, how money-minded.

You felt the need to say hello. Indeed, it seemed impolite not to do so.

Give that mint Milano back, you bitch. If you can't at least be polite, you don't get a treat.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

I am always late. If I arrived early, my hostess would faint.

EL-FAYOUMY: May I approach you? JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: The bench, not me!

It is important to say sir at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.

You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.

She even told me how to treat a girl on a date, which was very interesting. She said that with a girl like Mary Elizabeth, you shouldn't tell her she looks pretty. You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.