Quotes About Etiquette

Insulting players and coaches and spitting on us is simply wrong. You cannot go out and walk around town and just start insulting people or spit at them either.

No one hates someone spitting at someone more than I do and it is frowned upon in our country. It is a horrible, horrible thing to do.

I'm a germophobe, so I don't like people talking over my food, breathing, spitting, anything. Just let me eat in peace.

It is impossible to train and play without spitting.

Mansa Musa never spoke in public, and whispered everything to an interpreter; he was also never allowed to be seen eating a meal.

I mean, Princess Margaret had me officially informed by the master of the household that she wouldn't speak to me until I changed my religion. That was not personal. We'd only met for five minutes. That was historical. She never spoke to me in 25 years. We were always very polite to one another, but we didn't speak.

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

If you see me or another model in a bar, wait until you are spoken to before you speak.

I carry myself where I speak when spoken to. It's good and bad.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

The greater man the greater courtesy.

The superior man is never in anyone's way.

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.