Quotes About Etiquette

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.