Quotes About Etiquette

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Social etiquette dictates that when in mixed company, one should avoid discussing politics and religion. As someone who is quite active on various social portals, I can attest to the visceral emotions that are triggered when these topics are broached!

It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.

Wait here, Miz Meg, and we'll holler when we're undressed and under the covers. We know it don't bother you seein' our backsides since you're a widow and all, but it'd sure bother us… even though you've seen "em before. We kinda like to keep 'em to ourselves

You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett." "Had politeness beat into me.

You're not being a gentleman," she chided. "Did you truly want me to be?

Allow me to introduce Viscount Fitzwilliam," Lady Ivers continued. Sebastian had a strong need to groan. The night would no doubt be filled with tedious introductions. "You are a fortunate man, my lord, to have won Lady Mary over." "I'd have not asked for her hand in marriage if I'd thought otherwise." Right then. So we're not going to get along famously.

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

I don't have to point out, I'm sure, that letters received should be answered within a reasonable time- say a month; but there is such a thing as answering too promptly and writing too long a letter. It makes answering a burden to your correspondent, who will feel obligated to do at least as well as you have done, and will soon be heartily sick of the whole thing.

So ingrained, Gamache knew, was our training to be polite that even in the midst of a terrible personal loss people still smiled.

Fuckin' inconsiderate; excuse my english.

I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

Most American women are very uncomfortable about having servants. They don't know what to do while you are there.

He must be aged to have good manners. Modern young men have to be angry, and that means plain rude.

If someone else takes a bite of my food, I have to cut off the part that his/her saliva has touched before I can eat any more of it.

I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

Good manners were a part of his inheritance, like left-handedness or hemophilia.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at