Quotes About Etiquette

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest.

I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as soy milk at my table. Consider yourself chastised.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

As a rule of social etiquette, when confronted with a pixelated screen of a dozen people, all of them inquiring, somewhat half-heartedly, as to "how you are," it is appropriate to make the expected, decent and accurate claim that you are fine and privileged, lucky compared to so many others, inconvenienced, yes, melancholy often, but not suffering.

My skirts aren't a theater curtain for you to peep through," she hissed. "Impatient for the show to begin," he answered, unrepentant.

What everyone agreed was not very nice, was the way Clémence had carried on. Obviously, she wasn't the kind of girl you'd ask again: she'd ended up showing off everything she'd got, and she'd puked all down one of the muslin curtains and completely ruined it. At least the men did go into the street to do it; Lorilleux and Poisson, when they felt queer, managed to dash as far as the pork-butcher's shop. Breeding always tells.

protection, and everybody got tuh tip dey hat

While criticising, one must not abuse.

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

Where I was brought up, if you were walking down the street and you looked at someone and they looked at you, you acknowledged them.

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

If I see someone that's too arrogant, that's not how I was raised.

Manner is everything," an elegant translation of that judicial axiom: "Form over content.

Por fin, Du Châtelet vio a Lucien y le dirigió uno de esos pequeños saludos, secos y fríos, con los cuales un hombre desacredita a otro dando a entender a las personas de mundo el ínfimo lugar que ocupa en la escala social.

In other countries customs are very different. Englishmen pique themselves on never opening their lips; Germans are melancholy in a vehicle; Italians too wary to talk; Spaniards have no public conveyances; and Russians no roads.

Early on, I'd got a sample of how Cornelia Tell questioned all motives for politeness. I'd sat down and said, "Would it be too much trouble if I got a scone with my coffee?" Cornelia Tell shot back, "Even if it does cause me trouble, do you still want a scone?" I never put it that way again, believe me. I just said, "I'd like a scone.

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner or by momentarily resigning the game or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The essence of good taste is never to be offended by bad taste.

Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective.

My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.

Un Sufi tiene derecho a ser servido, pero no tiene derecho a exigir. Maruf Karkhi de Khorasan