Quotes About Etiquette

I shake everybody's hand before the game, but Oklahoma City, they don't shake hands. Only some of them, but I don't think they really shake hands before the game.

If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.

I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.

When going out on a date, I think there are certain old-fashioned manners that I still enjoy. I don't mean that as an anti-feminist comment. I just mean it as a pro-women comment. There must be a place for us to exist and our differences to exist without one taking away from the other.

I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me.

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

I'm kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers... Or doesn't answer.

I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'

I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.

Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.

I actually hate when people open my gifts, and I hate opening gifts in front of people.

Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there.

Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.

One should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public...