Quotes About Etiquette

los tíos querían que me quedase con el clarín porque era más barato: la trompeta debía de costar una fortuna y no podía imponer ese sacrificio a los tíos. Siempre me habían enseñado que cuando te ofrecen algo que te gusta tienes que decir enseguida no gracias, y no una sola vez, no decir no gracias y después tender la mano, sino esperar que el otro insista, que te diga por favor. Sólo entonces el niño educado puede ceder.

The reply was: "Whom shall I say, sir?"—in smart society the only persons who bother with grammar are the butler and the social secretary.

Der alte Herr had steadily refused to meet Corporal Schicklgruber, because he talked too much, and in the army it was customary for a non-commissioned officer to wait for his superior to speak first. Emil expressed his ideas

Der alte Herr had steadily refused to meet Corporal Schicklgruber, because he talked too much, and in the army it was customary for a non-commissioned officer to wait for his superior to speak first.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If not, it had been passed down from one generation to another as carefully as the secret of fire.

Madame Dufour stood at the head of the table, dressed in a severe black dress that revealed the soup spoon–sized hollow at the base of her long neck. A single diamond brooch was her only adornment (one good piece, ladies, and choose it well; everything makes a statement, nothing speaks quite so loudly as cheapness).

He was—as always—trapped by the flypaper of good manners.

have a habit of me mettre le doigt dans l'oeil —um, putting my foot in my mouth sometimes.

I thought about how I must look, wet, red-fingered from cold, cutting a hole in a perfectly good barn for no reason. "I don't want to tell you what to do," Shep began. This, I'd found, was a very common statement in the North Country. You're not considered rude if you don't return phone calls, or if you get drunk while working, or fail to show up as promised, but telling someone how to do something is bad form and requires a disclaimer.

Shake Hands—Left and Right

Aware of the governor's number-three offspring watching her manage the difficult task of conveying a bit of pastry into her biological mouth ~ her carved jade utensil with its long hook made it possible, but the point was to eat as gracefully as one would sans facial design ~ Inez grew irritated. She sensed the entire table watching her.

Poppy: Um, can we cross running water? James: Sure. And we can walk into people's homes without being invited, and roll in garlic if we don't mind losing friends.

Audrey: I was wet. Michael: Sweat. Audrey: I don't sweat. Michael: Well, ladylike perspiration, then.

No le sorprendió, tampoco, sentir una doble perforacIón en la garganta al echar la cabeza atrás: su preciosa pantera sólo estaba un poco domesticada en realidad, y necesitaba aprender algunas cosas básicas sobre la etiqueta de las citas, por ejemplo, que uno besa antes de morder.

Mind if I have a bite?

To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed.

Love is the smallest part of gallantry.

The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.

The vulgar Turk is very different from what is spoken at court, 'tis as ridiculous to make use of the expressions commonly used in speaking to a great man or lady, as it would be to talk broad Yorkshire or Somershetshire in the drawing room.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.