Quotes About Etiquette

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

Appropriateness of style and clothing.

Take time to be Courteous. Courtesy lightens the burdens of toil. Courtesy demands respect. Courtesy is a little brother to Opportunity and follows her around through the hours of the busy day. Courtesy always leads a man higher up.

The way you speak and your tone of voice must be pleasing.

English "manners" were imposed on the middle class as a way of domesticating them, along with instilling in them the fear of breaking rules and violating social norms.

politeness without warmth

never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact—and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.

finge estarlo, por política y cuestiones de casta.

I remember a funny dinner at my brother's, where, amongst a few others, were Babbage and Lyell, both of whom liked to talk. Carlyle, however, silenced every one by haranguing during the whole dinner on the advantages of silence. After dinner Babbage, in his grimmest manner, thanked Carlyle for his very interesting lecture on silence.

I abhor the man whose first remark after being introduced is "How warm, or how cold, it is." It proves either that he is a fool, or that he thinks I am one. This one expatiated on the weather. "Insufferable" I said, which might be applied to both himself and the heat.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Travel Etiquette: When dealing with foreigners, pretend you are Canadian.

There's nothing more annoying than a man ordering wine at a bar when you're not eating.

If you are a drinker, always use a pseudonym when booking hotels. None of us really know what kind of mess we're going to leave behind, and there's no sense in getting banned from a resort you respect.

If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings

Was it not a common saying among his people that a man should not, out of pride and etiquette, swallow his phlegm?

But I know well that no good ever comes from mistaking manners for kindness.

When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.

I am not a fool. I keep on hearing and seeing the way people misbehave with their coaches and seniors.

When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

You can't go around telling people what a monster your mother was on a day to day basis. It's unseemly.