Quotes About Etiquette

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up on me.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

No man does right by a woman at a party.

Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness.

DOWN A PEG (OR TWO) Humbled. An admiral flew his personal standard at the highest point of the mast, attached by rope to one of a series of pegs at its base. If a more senior admiral came aboard, the original standard would be taken down a peg or two to make room for the new flag. DRESSING

Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple. —DAVID KEUCK

Conversation itself has rules, which is why the conversationalist who insists that others must speak his language is a boor. To have a voice of one's own is to acknowledge other voices.

Not to attend at the door of the wealthy, and not to use the voice of petition?these constitute the best life of a man.

A gentleman is not for his gender, A gentleman known by his good jester