Quotes About Etiquette

Manners are love in a cool climate.

The best of the people are the first to greet others.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail.

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

Never say sorry as a greeting

Never reply to those," Zar said. "The heys." "Why not?" "It never gets better." Zar began to wriggle into jeans. "You don't want to go downhill from hey.

Hasn't anyone ever told you," Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, " that a gentleman never lays a hand on a lady?" Which I thought was kind of funny, considering where Jesse had had his hand the last time I'd seen him. But I thought it better to let that slide.

if you have to say "no offense" to someone, you have already offended them.

Well, hi, CeeCee, I said. Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking? Oh, please, CeeCee said. Why? Because we might interrupt you and your precious Jesse? Jesse, upon hearing this, raised his eyebrows. Way up.

CracKing: No need to yell. > FtLouie: I'm not yelling!!! > CracKing: You're using excessive amounts of punctuation, and on-line, that's like yelling.

No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative." "No offense taken," John said mildly.

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

Oh my God. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm right there in line. Your hair smells really good? Your hair smells really good? Who did he think he was? James Bond? You don't tell someone their hair smells good. Not in a mall.

The only one I missed was the one about what to say to a man when he tells you he loves you. It turns out you aren't supposed to say thank you. Not, of course, that this will ever happen to me. But Grandmere says I might be surprised someday. I wish!

Of course," she said, "Your Majesty." I admired the way she could make the words sound so much like "You Idiot.

Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.

What would you do if you were King's Thief, Gen? Chew with your mouth open in the royal presence? Chat with the court ladies, dropping the h's at the beginning of your words and garbling the ends of most of them? Everything about you reveals your low birth. You'd never be comfortable at the court.

Costis, what do you think you are doing? Sparring, Your Majesty. Most people cross swords before they spar and they say something introductory like 'Begin!' before they swing.

No one likes being talked to about their face.

As I've already explained, Lady Shadow, I've spent a lot of time at court. I'm already well-versed in the art of bowing and keeping my mouth shut." "Ha! But have you read Crumpets and Cravats?