Quotes About Etiquette

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.

I have always tried to play the right way, and I honestly believe for the most part the etiquette in snooker is very good. So when there are breaches, and there are, it stands out.

Never touch another man's button.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?

The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.