Quotes About Etiquette

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

I sign autographs and try to be as nice to people as possible, and I do pretty well with that. I understand the importance of it.

I don't sign autographs when I'm out for a meal or out with my kids. I think that's rude and disrespectful. I would never ask anyone for an autograph while they were eating dinner; that's what I was taught by my parents.

If you have to signal a bartender to get a drink, then they're not looking at you, which is their problem. They're not doing their job. So don't feel rude when you signal a bartender. They're the ones who caused you to signal them. Go for it.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient.

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Stone had decreed no dinner dress, only suits, or as the British preferred to call them, "lounge suits.

I truly hate being a guest in someone's home...Worst of all, you have to 'make nice' at all hours. I don't want someone across the table from me while I'm eating my breakfast. I don't want to share the newspaper and I don't want to talk to anyone at the end of the day. If I were interested in that shit, I'd be married again by now and put a permanent end to all the peace and quiet.

rudeness is a misdemeanor in Charleston.

Never hint that there is something wrong with their country.

Everyone is an atheist until they clog a toilet in someone else's house

Do not call anyone mate unless you have served on a boat with them.

was generally agreed that Mildred had managed a déclassé

I think that's everything," she said, rising to her feet. "Thank you, Mr. MacIntyre." He shook his head. "Lucas. Or the deal is off." She pressed her lips together. "All right. Lucas. And I must tell you, I don't particularly care for you shortening my name. Emily is perfectly fine." "I know, Em. I'll keep that in mind.

You do realize that bunny butt is just a polite way of saying rabbit ass.

Be pleasant, patient, and professional, please.

In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

The trouble with us is that we've been too polite with each other.

I can't stand people who jabber on their phones in supermarkets, blocking your access to the butter, then getting all self-important when you interrupt to ask them to move