Quotes About Etiquette

You were listening at the door, Gigi!" "No, Grandmamma." "Yes, you had your ear to the keyhole. You must never listen at key-holes. You don't hear properly and so you get things all wrong.

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you." [ Love's Last Shift ]

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.

Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

He who does not understand the will of Heaven cannot be regarded as a gentleman. He who does not know the rites cannot take his stand. He who does not understand words, cannot understand people.

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

Toffs?" Jack kept his eyes averted from his

Etiquette, Seward had once told Jamison, was all that mattered. Ideologies waxed and waned, religions developed and eroded, political parties rose and fell from power. Only courtesy remained one of the few things valued by all civilized men.

She warned him, kindly enough, about manners when he forgot the simple ceremonies of eating which everyone knew, such as standing up to unfold the napkin or putting the scraps into the solvent tray and the silverware into the transfer.

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.

I've done some crazy things in my life, but asking women their age isn't one of them.

He said okay, probably because I asked him twice and he had been taught that if somebody asks you something twice you say yes, no matter what it is.

George and Barbara Bush were never invited to the Reagans' private quarters during the eight years spent in the White House.104

la Delfina se cayó al suelo cuando montaba sobre un asno, dijo riendo: Id a buscar a madame Noailles, ella os dirá que ordena la etiqueta cuando una reina de Francia no sabe mantener el equilibrio sobre un asno. María Antonieta, Reina de Francia

One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney.

Don't stand in front of the TV when other people are watching it.

You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner.

Tim reminds me unnecessarily at breakfast that the Bensons and the McDougalls are coming to dinner tonight and asks me to tell Annie not to breathe heavily down the back of his neck when she is waiting at table. Spend half an hour wondering how I can possibly put this in a tactful manner and realise that I can't. Decide to say nothing about it and hope for the best.

I myself shall be elsewhere this evening, visiting with the Lady Madigan, Marchess of the Pike—one of the few folk in this city worth the time—and would have invited you with me . . . But no matter.

I'm so British and polite that creating a scene or being confrontational is so not my vibe.

You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.