Quotes About Etiquette

We could do nothing to please her . If I said as sunnily as I could, 'Hey, Mrs Dubose,' I would receive for an answer, 'Don't you say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs Dubose!

That doesn't mean you hafta talk that way when you know better," said Jem.

Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common.

Atticus decía que para ser cortés había que hablar a las personas de lo que les interesaba, no de lo que pudiera interesarnos a nosotros

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

Date etiquette lesson number two: Don't die. Go on living.

Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.

I turned to run, but I didn't actually take a step, even though I wanted to. That wasn't the way I was raised. My mother taught me that if you knock on a door, you have to wait there until someone answers.

En el mundo hay gente educada y gente con tacto. Ambas son buenas cualidades, pero en la mayoría de los cados el tacto supera a la educación

You can learn how to be an aristocrat by following a few rules in a very short book. There is nothing to it." He gave the boy a small copy of a book called Manners for the Perfect Gentry. He taught Pierrot to hold his chin up higher and to cry out that he didn't know why on earth he wasn't in Italy.

Call me old-fashioned, but I did read in Glamour that one's shorts should always be longer than one's vagina.

You can't be ironic about dead people.

Clearly in textbook terms, the gentleman should text the lady first after intercourse, but perhaps the whole socio-etiquettical system breaks down when an insect plague is involved.

Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still having sex?

Just Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a meeting!" How could I be in a meeting, and yet talking on the phone saying I'm in a meeting? People's assistants are meant to say they're in a meeting, not the person themself, who is supposed to be unable to say anything because they're in the meeting.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.

Sometimes I rub people the wrong way, although I'm very polite.

I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Whereas when I worked with Bob Hope, he didn't know his lines. He had to have these huge big cards... he hardly said two words to me all day.

You don't say hello to Mr. DeNiro? Show the respect, will ya?

Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of such outfits and jump at the chance to wear them. Against the etiquette about which I am otherwise all too conscious, I frequently, and unrepentantly, overdress for the occasion.