Quotes About Etiquette

Let me counsel you to remember that a lady, whether so called from birth or only from fortune, should never degrade herself by being put on a level with writers, and such sort of people.

He has no more manners than a bear.

Loretta Young, a world-class Catholic who kept a "swear box" on the set into which everyone had to make a deposit for their naughty words. Merman saw it, turned to Loretta, and said, "What the hell is this?" Loretta smiled sweetly and said, "Oh, Ethel, I'm afraid now you have to put twenty-five cents into the swear box." Ethel gave her a look and grinned as she said, "How much will it cost me to tell you to go fuck yourself?

If you can´t say something nice, don´t say nothing at all. (Thumper from the Disney movie Bambi)

Although Morgan has been seeing Jenna for nearly a year, I'm still unsure of the etiquette where her underwear is concerned. Should I pick it up delicately – with eyebrow tweezers, perhaps – and seal it in a clear plastic bag, like evidence from a crime scene? Tentatively, as if it might snap at my ankle, I nudge it into the corner of the bathroom with the toe of my shoe

Granpa always said that if you was spoken to, treat such with proper respect and give full attention to what was being said.

In Giappone poi, che in qualche modo, anclhe nella maniera meno diretta, rappresenta lo stato, quindi l'imperatore , è investito in maniera maggiore o minore d'un carattere nettamente numinoso. Dinnanzi a lui ci si inchina profondamente, passandogli vicino si guarda per terra, magari tirando su col fiato con quel caratteristico sibilo che indica imbarazzo e reverenza, definito da Pierre Loti "un sifflement de vipère" .

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to buy them a drink.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Don't sneeze, don't point at anybody with your little finger, don't scratch your left eyebrow, don't angle your knife so that it reflects light in somebody's eyes unless you're challenging them to a duel...

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

But there are no happy endings unless we cut the story short, and as far as I know, there are no rules of etiquette to a miracle, either.

Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's a rude assumption.

Tamaki: A girl should only show skin once she's married, not before!!!

Politeness is the hallmark of the gentleman and the gentlewoman. No single, positive characteristic

Thank you, Sal," said Pindar. Sal bowed to Pindar and winked at Joe. It struck Joe that Pindar was exceedingly gracious to everyone they encountered, and, as they took their seats, Joe asked Pindar about that. "It never hurts to be kind to people," Pindar replied.

Co kilka dni widywa? pann? Izabel? w licznych towarzystwach, otoczon? m?odszymi i starszymi lud?mi. Ale ju? nie razi?y go ani umizgi m??czyzn, ani jej spojrzenia i u?miechy.

it takes no more time to be polite to every one than it does to be rude.

Be so kind as not to Frenchify. It really is a stupid habit to stick half of a French phrase into Russian speech," Zurov said irritably, glancing around at the speaker, although he himself interpolated French expressions now and again.

Any man was likely to take it amiss if his name were remembered incorrectly, and there was absolutely no point in offending his subordinates unnecessarily.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

The rules of etiquette were established mostly by women, are chiefly for the benefit of women, and are mainly suited only to the nature of women; and a too punctilious observance of them by a man, goes to show that over-refinement has nearly unsexed him.