Quotes About Etiquette

At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." The pair last year were two kids from the Seam who'd never, not one day of their lives, had enough to eat.

Thank you for your consideration," I say. Then I give a slight bow and walk straight toward the exit without being dismissed.

Never interrupt a lady when she is speaking to you, as if what you have to say is more important.

Gentlemanly behavior isn't just opening doors: to make an impression, you have to be concerned over a lady's needs at least as much as your own.

I wish you'd tell me when we're having friends over for luncheon." "I would, if they would tell me.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.

People step on my feet, and I say I'm sorry.

If I'm making everyone wait, which happens... at least charm it on a bit. Go, 'Oh I'm so sorry I'm late.' Make up something.

I say 'sorry' all the time. I just throw it into sentences.

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

I fill my business emails with smiley faces and question marks so that I don't sound too severe.

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

Southern women, especially upper-middle-class women, care deeply about appearances and what other people think.

Not only Southern children - but adults as well - use the preface ma'am or sir when speaking to someone older or in authority.

Southerners pride themselves on being polite. This is why we always use euphemisms to express ourselves.

You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.

No young lady can be jastified in flling in love before the gentleman's love is declared