Quotes About Etiquette

Culture makes all men gentle.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

In some cultures, like Middle Eastern, Egyptian, or Asian cultures, people are often hesitant to give any negative feedback.

You would never see anyone go to a restaurant in Milan wearing a jumpsuit!

Today I was trying to eat a beignet on camera. You cant do that. You cant even eat a beignet on a date, let alone in front of an audience of a million people. I still havent learned my lesson.

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

I always make the mistake of not asking the hosts who else is being invited, I thought.

You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

He told me once that, whenever it was 'feasible,' he preferred to eat the rude. 'Free-range rude,' he called them.

One Washington axiom, proved more times than the Pythagorean theorem, states that in the presence of oxygen, one loud fart with an obvious culprit will cover many small emissions in the same room, provided they are nearly simultaneous.

Crawford got to his feet. "Director Noonan, may I say—" "You may leave, is what you may do," Krendler said.

Nevertheless, we wanted to make Mr. Bud feel that we fully understood the food and drink expectations of America's decamillionaires. So after we introduced ourselves, one of us asked, "Mr. Bud, may I pour you a glass of 1970 Bordeaux?" Mr. Bud looked at us with a puzzled expression on his face and then said:    I drink scotch and

Nevertheless, we wanted to make Mr. Bud feel that we fully understood the food and drink expectations of America's decamillionaires. So after we introduced ourselves, one of us asked, "Mr. Bud, may I pour you a glass of 1970 Bordeaux?" Mr. Bud looked at us with a puzzled expression on his face and then said: I drink scotch and two kinds of beer—free and BUDWEISER!

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable of men in society, never to contradict anybody.

When she saw him come nigh, she said, Away, kitchen knave, out of the wind, for the smell of thy bawdy clothes grieveth me.

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

That regales," he said. "Won't you have more?

Hair and drug-use issues notwithstanding, I've never thought of you as any less than professional.

Eleven o'clock. A knock at the door... I hope I haven't disturbed you, madam. You weren't asleep—were you? But I've just given my lady

If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.

Never say no to a cup of tea and never pass up the chance to use the toilet was her sage advice.