Quotes About Etiquette

He had calling cards with his family crest on them and respected all the known rules of urbanity as well as some of his own invention, such as eating artichokes with tongs, which provoked general stupefaction.

Los ritos y ceremonias son tan necesarios como las normas de buena educación y el respeto por las jerarquías.

decidió que era en los detalles donde estaba la diferencia entre un caballero y un patán

The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'

I hate how old people get in my way when I'm swimming. You're trying to get into the zone and normally, if there's someone faster than you, you get out of the way, but old people don't; they're like, you can go round me. I give a little tut when I pass them.

The thing that I don't like is the selfie when people turn their back to the stage. I'm playing my heart out, I put everything that I have into my performance. If someone turns their back to me like a zoo animal... that drives me absolutely bananas.

It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

A cat may look at a king.

If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

Children should be seen and not heard.

There is such a thing as too much couth.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot tactfully through the television set.

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to,' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No, it is better not', he said, 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.

A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.