Quotes About Etiquette

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.

When Neil Young caught two women incessantly texting at a concert in 2012, he began mock typing on an invisible phone on stage until the women noticed and apparently left the show.

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, 'My goodness, you look ugly this morning.' Perhaps that's not necessary.

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.

A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.

When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?

Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you know? 'oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

In Europe where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

The more you act like a lady, the more he will act like a gentleman.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

He had no wish to obtrude himself on bishops.

In his view, the ancient Japanese way, where men would meet and "bow to each other for as much as half an hour speaking words of greeting, gradually moving closer together, understanding the necessity of entering another's consciousness carefully,"1 was a good one.

All my life, I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.