Quotes About Etiquette

Once a gentleman, always a gentleman.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason, mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.

When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

Lack of etiquette and manners is a huge turn off. Men who don't behave decently are irritating. Also, I don't like guys who show off. When will guys realize that girls hate showoffs!

We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.

I'm a hugger of both men and women. As it turns out that those are taken in an offensive manner, I need to have a greater sense of awareness of what I am doing, and we will correct that, and I am taking those steps.

We have to stay away from the personal attacks. I think it turns off a lot of Canadians.

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude.

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.

Even my trolls have started taking the trouble to spell their Tweets correctly, which is thoughtful.

In my field, you can't really wear the same dress twice unless you want Isaac Mizrahi to scorn you on TV.

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.

BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice.

Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.