Quotes About Etiquette

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Meet people properly: It all starts with the introduction

I think calling me 'full-figured' is just rude.

I just have to work on the apologetic side because I'm Canadian. We apologize for everything.

You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them.

Just because the office is casual doesn't mean you shouldn't make an effort.

You don't talk about celebrities in the Hamptons, duh!

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

Anywhere I go, if I go out, I have to keep my phone out. I don't try to be rude. If I turn it around, I have to check it every 5 minutes.

My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah - whatever.

Smacking or chewing really loud and obnoxiously at dinner is a no-no. You know, if we're eating tacos, and I know we gotta use our hands, but if it gets all over your face, it's not sexy to me. That's not a good look.

Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

Civility is a choice.

If you're ever bcc'd, do not go near 'reply all.' 'Bcc' is 'blind carbon copy.' It means you're a fly on the wall, dude! If you hit reply all, it's beyond bad etiquette to out the person who gave you the superpower of invisibility. It's like screaming, 'I'm a spy!'

I hate dinner parties, you know, can't stand them. Friends don't bother inviting me any more, because they know I won't come. I could never think of anything to say between courses - it's a confidence thing, I suppose.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

My mom is the kind of mom, when we would go to a friend of the family's house, and they would offer us something to drink or offer us something to eat, my mother would always say, 'Tell them no.' You could be starving - you could be dehydrated - but as kids, we were supposed to tell the host, 'No.'