Quotes About Etiquette

If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it.

You don't talk to Richard Petty unless he talks to you.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid

When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

Manners form the great charm of women.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

The main trouble with women is that they will just not put the seat back up again.

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.