Quotes About Etiquette

Young women do not faint nowadays, monsieur, without considerable provocation.

The three men shared a light meal of rice, miso soup with tofu and straw mushrooms, grilled butterfish, and various savory side dishes. (Daiyu's wife Mariko, as was customary, served them in silence, then ate later by herself in the kitchen.)

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

Wise parents do not criticize each other in front of their children or their friends. Nor do they talk negatively about their children when others are present. That is disloyalty.

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

The trouble with the dead, Triumvir Ilia Volyova thought, was that they had no real idea when to shut up.

make a good showing among all the monied bigwigs in the Mazarile chamber of commerce, he'd brought both of us along for the evening. We were meant to be on our best behaviour. Prim and proper educated young ladies.

Speaking from personal experience, if someone asked me on a date, I would still want to pay.

My pet peeve is when people come over to my house, and there are coasters, but they don't use a coaster.

Even in a culture where people are well meaning, there are sometimes 'microaggressions.' People who will just cut you off. You'll be talking, and someone will interrupt you. That's become a big pet peeve of mine.

My least favorite thing or my pet peeve would be people who literally ignore the other people you're with, or the situation, and they just dive right in and cut off the conversation.

I don't mind being called Maddy at all, but I mind the closeness that you assume you get by calling me by my pet name. So merely by calling me Maddy, I don't give you the authority to come and put your hand around my shoulder.

I admit my pet peeve is waiting on someone. I pride myself on being on time.

There is a British assumption that you mustn't speak evil of anyone's garden because it is rude - it is like criticising their home, their children or their pets.

I've met Prince Charles and Prince Philip.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

It doesn't take a cell phone to make a person rude. There are rude people all over the place. But people are learning. I have never heard a cell phone ring in the movies. We are going to learn how to live with the advantages of new technology.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

We live in the new world where camera phones are everywhere, and you have to be on your best behavior at all times.

When I go out for dinner with friends, we all put our phones aside and the first person to pick up their phone has to pay the bill.

I'm at the doctor's office. I'm in the waiting room. And there's this guy on his cell phone, talking really loud. Does he think he owns the place? Apparently. I think this is so offensive. But you have to remember: It doesn't take a cell phone to make people rude. People were rude before there were cell phones.

Even when people are watching a movie in a multiplex, they insult the film by constantly checking their phones and flashing lights. At times, even when the audience is being told to not flash their cameras, they do, and you can't do anything because it's a habit for them and they can't stop. I don't want that for myself.