Quotes About Etiquette

already a work of art. "Now let's go greet the dowager. I own, I'm unduly

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

I hope,' muttered Jasper, 'we do not ever shop again at a place where vampires can buy clip-on bow ties. You would think with all of eternity in front of them, they could take the time to learn a simple knot.

I leaned over and slapped his face sideways and backhanded it back to center position. Manners, I said.

You did very well, old friend. Shall I blush and simper? If you don't keep it up for long. I hate blushing and simpering in a grown man when it goes on and on.

SIR CHARLES. [Hastily] You smoke, Mr. MALISE? MALISE. Too much. SIR CHARLES. Ah! Must smoke when you think a lot. MALISE. Or think when you smoke a lot. SIR CHARLES. [Genially] Don't know that I find that. LADY DEDMOND. [With her clear look at him] Charles!

It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.

Gant abruptly stood and said, "Thank you for your time, Mr. Koane. I'll see myself out.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

he started to stammer nervously. "Madam," he began, "the queen's

This was not the way to speak to a queen. Mary, visibly coloring, ordered him to be silent.

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

THERE'S NO NEED TO BE CRUDE,' said Owen Meany.

I always made an awkward bow.

Never stay on the same floor as a client; a

For a generation of kids who grew up without a home phone, basic telephone etiquette is increasingly an issue.

Pedants should be aware that the English name for the world's highest mountain should be spoken aloud as EEV-uh-rest, not EV-uh-rest.

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A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

Pretending that you're very busy talking over phone when you see someone you want to avoid or don't want to talk to.