Quotes About Etiquette

Mert tényleg, valahogy olyan durvának érzem, ha az ember nem nyeli le. Mint amikor meghívsz valakit a házadba vacsorára, és aztán a konyhában kell ennie a cselédekkel.

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

Gute Erziehung besteht darin, dass man verbirgt, wieviel man von sich selber hält und wie wenig von den anderen.

Imagine anyone asking Henry VIII or Elizabeth to settle a bill!

Passion is not well bred.

You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.

La patronne était là, j'ai dû la baiser, mais c'était bien par politesse.

Real ladies do not know the price of things

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about it. They find other ways to work it out.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman. I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

My parents were very strict about manners and being polite to others. I brought my own children up that way, too.

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

I'm struck these days by how often people come up to me and ask to take a photograph instead of shaking hands, meeting one's eyes, and having an actual conversation.

It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

I don't want my fans to shout any insults at my opponent.

I never say bad things about my opponent.

Shaking hands is meant as a sign of respect towards your opponent.

I'm all for a great fan environment to cheer us if we're home and boo us if we're the opposing team. But some fans are over the line with the stuff they say, the stuff they do.

Orange County is a place where you can ask people if that's their real hair color; you can ask them if that diamond is real; you can ask if that car is a lease. But you cannot ask if someone is a Democrat.

You will never hear me denigrating other countries.