Quotes About Etiquette

It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness

A well-behaved person is not always well-dressed.

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

My biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time.

The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."