Quotes About Etiquette

Donde no hay mujeres no hay buenos modales", o "En la audacia hay genio, fuerza y magia". Aunque no

An ambassador seeks to speak the right thing in the best way.

After we ate our heaping slice of humble pie, we asked the missus if she could at least serve it up a la mode next time.

BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice...

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

You come to a wedding, you should dress with the dignity of a funeral, because who the fuck knows when you'll ever see the couple again, and who the fuck knows when they'll see you again. So you get your look right, you don't glam it up, you don't whore it up, even though it's Las Vegas. No one ever got kicked out of a place in Las Vegas for dressing elegantly.

Alexey Alexandorivich had seen nothing striking or improper in the fact that his wife was sitting with Vronsky at a separate table, in eager conversation with him about something. But he noticed that to the rest of the party this appeared to be something striking and improper. He made up his mind that he must speak of it to his wife.

Once a man next to me found the handle of a radiator in his mashed potato; he said nothing, merely moving it to the side of his plate after sucking the mashed potato off it first. Nobody else said anything either. If the truth was known several of us were probably jealous.

They had no idea what was or wasn't appropriate behavior, no concept of the usual give and take of normal relationships.

I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

I don't aim to offend.

When a man crosses his legs and the trouser leg rides up to show the hairy shins, it offends my eyes.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

I don't want to offend people.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

We don't want to cross too many lines or offend the parents at all.

Growing up in the South, we say 'Yes Ma'am' and 'No Ma'am.' Here in Hollywood, people get offended.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

You might see Al Pacino at the grocers, but you would never go up to him and say, 'Oh my God, you're Al Pacino.'

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.