Quotes About Etiquette

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway? Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still have sex?

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

The Danes, I've noticed, love an emoticon, especially to dilute the impact after saying something that could be construed as confrontational, critical or rude.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them. The essence of good manners is not exclusivity, nor exclusion of any kind, but sensitivity. To practice good manners is to confer upon others not just consideration but esteem; it's to bathe others in a commodity best described by noted speller Aretha Franklin.

Politeness has been defined as love in trifles. Courtesy is said to be love in little things. And the one secret of politeness is to love.

Tradition has it that Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, preferred to speak French to diplomats, Italian to ladies, German to stable boys and Spanish to God. English he seems to have used sparingly – to talk to geese.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

I hope i shall never hav so much reputashun that i shan't feel obliged to be alwus civil.

Thare iz this mutch kan be sed in favour ov good-breeding, it iz the only thing that kan make a phool endurable.

Giv every one you meet, my boy, the time ov day and halff the road, and if that dont make him civil dont waste enny more fragrance on the cuss.

Politeness iz often wasted, but it iz a good and cheap mistake tew make.

But she immediately turned away to Princess Marya Borisovna and never once glanced at him until he got up to leave; then she looked at him, but obviously only because it was impolite not to look at a man when he was bowing to you.

Fereasc? Dumnezeu s? te întâlne?ti cu ru?i în str?in?tate, e o ru?ine!

Todo se hacía con las manos limpias, con camisas planchadas, con palabras francesas y, sobre todo, en la más alta sociedad, es decir, con la aquiescencia de las personas más influyentes.

I hear that you have just killed a bear," said Kitty, vainly trying to put her fork into a recalcitrant mush- room which kept flying about on the plate

I became so at ease with her that for one moment I forgot all etiquette

Backstabbing, by the way, is not to be confused with a minor slipup like canceling lunch at the last minute or neglecting to return a phone call.

no matter how warm the relationship, there's always a certain etiquette when you deal with an in- law, a trace of formality.

Punctuality is the politeness of princes'?

It's a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills.