Quotes About Etiquette

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Cheap? If he was at the Last Supper, he would have asked for separate checks!

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

Men make laws; women make manners.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company.

A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.

It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

Praise the wise man behind his back, but a woman to her face.