Quotes About Etiquette

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Dressing well is a form of good manners.

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.