Quotes About Etiquette

I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty

Mrs. Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first fingerbowl. The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. Mrs. Guinea never said anything, and it was only much later, when I told a debutante I knew at college about the dinner, that I learned what I had done.

Eu havia descoberto, depois de muita ansiedade de quais talheres usar, que se você fizer algo de errado à mesa com certa arrogância, como se você soubesse perfeitamente que aquele é o jeito certo de fazer as coisas, ninguém vai achar que você é grosseira ou mal-educada. Vão pensar que você é original e muito espirituosa.

if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

For what is more formal than a family dinner? An official occasion of uncomfortable people Who meet very seldom, making conversation.

Ich weiß nicht woher du die Idee hattest, dass man aus Höflichkeit mit jeder schlafen muss, die einen darum bittet.

and it made me uncomfortable the way this guy was eating a scrawny chicken wing and looking at me. You know, I just wanted to tell him to knock it off and be a person.

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.

I'm to attend balls and banquets without my squire? demanded Raoul, all innocence. I can't handle things like requesting water to shave with, or getting my clothes pressed. I need Kel.

A bad name is just a fart with consonants.

To Mareme, he nodded politely. At Cyrion he smiled with love.

Your leave to sit." "The countryside is as much yours as mine, sir." "Damn you then, I'll sit." "It's hardly needful you should send me to Hell for that. But then, you have another way in mind.

She bowed herself almost to the ground before Sarmur's daughter, with the flamboyant courtesy of one who secretly rules the kingdom.

He said having a smoking section in a restaurant was just like having a pissing section in a swimming pool.

I do hope I'm not interrupting what appears to be an inconvenient moment. . . .

It's rude to run off a guest. It's rude to wear out your welcome.

You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.

It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric.

During meals, I was taught table manners, and I was not allowed to twirl my fork around over my head. The only time I could revert back to autism was for one hour after lunch. The rest of the day, I had to live in a nonrocking, nontwirling world.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.