Quotes About Etiquette

It is extremely rude, of course, for an audience to talk during a concert performance

rather split his trousers than an infinitive.

Parker had acquired the North American habit of making his demands sound like polite inquiries.

We know how to behave! We've had lessons.

Well, Joe Biden has done it again. He showed up at the White House Passover Seder with a bunch of ham sandwiches.

If it weren't for girls, being a gentleman would be super-duper easy.

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

A shnorrer knocked on the door of the rich man's house at six-thirty in the morning. The rich man cried, "How dare you wake me up so early?" "Listen," said the shnorrer, "I don't tell you how to run your business, so don't tell me how to run mine.

In the final round of the game, if your company has admitted women to the play, I do not recommend that you vote for your paramour, or for the member of the company who has taken your fancy. In my experience it rarely leads to success; and your fellows will notice and make fun of your noble gesture for weeks.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

I do not cough for my own amusement.

Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. You are mistaken, said he gently, that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners (...)

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing? Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.