Quotes About Etiquette

Ms. Connell sighs because wealth does not equate to good manners.

This is the way of air travel: fellow passengers applaud because they didn't die, and then they cut in front of you so they can exit four seconds earlier.

Huh? Okay." I raise my brows. But the Consul stares back at me with unblinking disdain. "Your second lesson is never to use non-existent words or animalistic sounds worthy of a gurgling infant child in your adult communication.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business.

Call on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.

At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.

When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.