Quotes About Etiquette

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Diplomacy is living in state.

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

The prerequisites for being in the diplomatic corps are the ability to handle protocol alcohol and Geritol.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

Hug your customers but also offer handshake to your competitors.

Dear Boss! Don't be a boss-hole.

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.

You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

and debris, and her husband and I settled back, sucking on toothpicks like a pair of feudal lords. This may sound sexist and insensitive and politically incorrect—and it is—but I had long since

The Etiquette of Illness, a book from 2004 by a social worker and psychotherapist named Susan Halpern,

The Etiquette of Illness, a book from 2004 by a social worker and psychotherapist named Susan Halpern, who is herself a cancer survivor. The subtitle is What to Say When You Can't Find the Words. But it's really about what to do when you feel scared that doing something, if it turns out to be the wrong thing, might be worse than doing nothing at all.