Quotes About Etiquette

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.

Never rub another mans rhubarb

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave

There are some things you don't ask a man. Not if you respect him. He's entitled to stake his claim to what he considers private to himself alone.

Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

dressed in mourning—in white—according to the custom in royal families in those days,

and in the hierarchy of breakups he was going to take the high road—no phone breakup, but a face-to-face, which ranked much higher than a text message or e-mail.

giving a party was not as simple as going to one. You could always leave someone else's party. You were stuck with your own.

L'éxactitude est la politesse des rois" (Punctuality is the good manners of kings). That

The French say, "L'éxactitude est la politesse des rois" (Punctuality is the good manners of kings).

Would you call me 'excessive'?" Madison asked Piper. "Not to your face," Piper replied.

I had just begun to notice that people who knew the correct way to do things such as hold a teacup, put food on a fork and bring it to their mouth without making a mess on the front of their dress—they were the people responsible for the most misery, the people least likely to end up insane or paupers.

always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach

Children must not stare at their elders," he said. "That is ill-bred." "Huh?" both of them asked. What's "stare," they wondered; "elders"; "ill-bred"? "Say, 'Sir,' or 'I beg your pardon, Father.' " "Sir?" Rufus said. "You," Father Jackson said to Catherine. "Sir?" Catherine said. "You must not stare at people—look at them, as you are looking at me.

Dinner parties bring out the worst in everyone.

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

Fish and Guests in three days are stale.

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

both elbows on the table. 'She's

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat

no society matron would be so ill bred as to present an unmarried lady with a corpse. It was simply not good ton.