Quotes About Etiquette

I've had so many people say stuff to me. I meet them, have a chat for five minutes and they think they can say what they like. I used to laugh it off, but now I think 'why do you think you can say that to me? You don't know me.'

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

The only discordant note in the conversation came when I casually dropped the slang expression for psilocybin when asking him about going hunting for 'shrooms. "I really, really hate that word," he said, almost gravely, adopting the tone of a parent upbraiding a potty-mouthed child. The word never crossed my lips again.

A true gentleman has no vices, but he allows you your own.

Det er en kjedelig uvane som særlig går ut over damene, å måtte låne ut leppene til hvem som helst som har tre tjenere på slep, uansett hvor frastøtende han er.

Why, the top-notch gentleman visits his hatter every few days just to have his hat ironed!

Why is everyone such a cunt about grammer?

God, you don't just barge in on my father, and definitely not my mother. No way. You check with their personal secretaries first. Check out their moods. Then you make an appointment to slip in. There are basic things you learn when your parents run a planet.

MiÅ'o mi sÅ'ysze?, ?e siÄ™ pan tak uprzejmie zwraca do kota. Nie wiadomo, dlaczego wszyscy mówiÄ… do kotów "ty", cho? jako ?ywo ?aden kot nigdy z nikim nie piÅ' bruderszaftu.

Chewing a forkful of caviar, Styopa managed to squeeze out the words: And you?...have a bite? Thank you, I never do, answered the stranger and poured a second drink. They uncovered the saucepan and found that it contained sausages with tomato sauce. (86)

Allí donde habla el corazón es de mala educación que la razón lo contradiga

Un mundo en el que toda la gente se tutea no es el mundo de la amistad generalizada sino el mundo de la falta de respeto generealizada.

Es curioso, la gente emplea palabras groseras de la mañana a la noche, pero, cuando oye hablar por la radio a una persona conocida, a la que aprecia, utilizando la palabra "Mierda" en cada frase, se siente decepcionada

Forget love. Try good manners.

My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

What am I supposed to call you?""Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid.

Those whodisrespect youwith their mouthdon't deserveyour ear.

Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.

I felt that it was getting very late indeed, but I did not say anything, for I felt under obligation to meet my host's wishes in ever way.

Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in pressing you in all ways to use the utmost expedition.

we got up and walked down Piccadilly. Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in the old days before I went to school. I felt it very improper, for you can't go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit; but it was Jonathan, and he was my husband, and we didn't know anybody who saw us - and we didn't care if they did - so on we walked.

but he almost managed to sit down on his silk hat, which men don't generally do when they are cool

Nikdy nezapomínejte, že takový smích, který zaklepe u vaÅ¡ich dveÃ…â"¢í a zeptá se: Smím vstoupit?, není pravý smích. Nikoli! Smích je král a dostaví se, kdy a jak se mu zlíbí. Nikoho se neptá, neohlíží se na vhodnost okamžiku. ProstÄ› Ã…â"¢ekne: Jsem tu.