Quotes About Etiquette

Dannon had tried to catch her eye, but she'd resolutely moved on to the next Important Person.

In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.

I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.

Politeness and courtesy are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.

when you start displaying courtesy, politeness, and consideration, people start displaying them right back.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

Better he think me rude than not think at all.

I'm sorry, my lady, " said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you're trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

Always use tasteful words - you may have to eat them.

Tact: getting your point across without stabbing someone with it.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard

Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.

Be polite even to those who are rude to you, not because they are, but because of you are.

I hate it when someone turns on the light while I'm sleeping!

M. de Charlus and M. de Sidonia had each of them immediately detected the other's vice, which was in both cases that of soliloquising in society, to the extent of not being able to stand any interruption. Having decided at once that, in the words of a famous sonnet, there was 'no help,' they had made up their minds not to be silent but each to go on talking without any regard to what the other might say.

Which was for me the true friend—Mme de Montmorency, so happy to ruffle my feelings and always so willing to oblige, or Mme de Guermantes, distressed at the least offense toward me and incapable of the least effort to be helpful?