Quotes About Etiquette

My late husband's family is not something I sit around and discuss at cocktail parties.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of 'finishing school' where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don't know.

I've had designers say to my face, 'Oh, I want to dress you now that you're skinny.' And that's really rude.

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

There's nothing worse than watching an old wrinkly guy going, 'Hey, baby.' You're like, 'Dude, that's lame.' It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different

Don't eat so noisily. My grandmother used to say, 'A smack at the table is worth a smack on the bottom.

You shouldn't leave your crayon on other people's beds where it can get sat on.

Grown-ups often forgot that no child likes to be ordered to be nice to another child.

Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by the great horn spoon (a nonce term first cited in the Biglow Papers), jo-fired, jumping Jehoshaphat, and others almost without number - but even this cautious epithets could land people in trouble as late as the 1940s.

Nothing, however, bemused the Indians more than the European habit of blowing their noses into a fine handkerchief, folding it carefully, and placing it back in their pockets as if it were a treasured memento.

The waitress, seeing how much I had left, asked me if I wanted a doggie bag. 'No thank you,' I said through a thin smile, 'I don't believe I could find a dog that would eat it.

and I still have to quell an impulse to go up to strangers in pubs and restaurants and say, "Excuse me, can I give you a tip that'll help stop those peas bouncing all over the table?" Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun

when a person says to you, "How do you do?" he will be taken aback if you reply, with impeccable logic, "How do I do what?" The complexities of the English language are

An is indisputably correct before just four words beginning with 'h': hour, honest, honour and heir.

In Anglo-Saxon times, according to Crippen, it was customary for someone offering a drink to say, "Wassail!" and for the recipient to respond "Drinkhail!" and for the participants to repeat the exercise until comfortably horizontal.