Quotes About Etiquette

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

A man's tie should never be louder than his wife.

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.

I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

No gentleman ever has any money.

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.