Quotes About Etiquette

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If you don't go to people's funerals they won't come to yours.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

No dignity without distance.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.

I'm known for being quite gobby, but also, I'm quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters.

Lipstick is for lips only.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

Granddad taught me a long time ago, act like you've been there before.

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

While speaking in the NA, one must maintain respect.

I'm happy to talk to anybody but do it in the right manner.

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.