Quotes About Etiquette

We were at another funeral party. I wasn't sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude.

Dinner is a waste on a first date, because you don't want the guy to see how much you can really eat. "He'll find out soon enough that I can put my entire head in a Häagen-Dazs tub."

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

Have you heard," he said "that many of our people believe if you know five colloquial expressions in their tribal language, they must always provide you with nourishment and shelter? But-" He paused as though to make sure she was paying attention. "But if you know fewer than five, they owe you not even a sip of water." She nodded, understanding his point, but he pressed it. "Learn those five phrases, Miss Sweeney," he said.

Yeah, Atatsuki, don't call him by that name. It's rude! Kuran-sama is handsome, well-behaved, and a perfect honor student. Calling him "gang leader" would ruin his image!! At least call him "SUPREME GANG LEADER!!

When it comes to attractive females my policy has always been to nod first and ask questions later.

We're the only two people here!' 'That's not the point. It is still a library. If you are in a cathedral, you are quiet because you are in a cathedral, not because other people are there. It's the same with a library.

One thing that has remained constant, across four centuries, has been the desire for a British person to fill a silence with talk of the weather, and whenever I have lived there I was no exception to this rule.

Their conversation topics are very rarely the things they want to be talking about, and I could write ninety-seven books on body shame and clothing etiquette before you would get even close to understanding them.

Jei per ilgai lauksi - teks ištarti "sudie" dar nepasakius "laba diena".

So the coffee came and I tasted it—a hot, foul, acidic, dual-carbon compound liquid—and I spat it out all over her. A major breach of human etiquette: apparently, I was meant to swallow

a classic example of Robert Heinlein's famous saying, that an armed society is a polite society.

A girl chatting to Prince Charles at an unemployment training centre confided in HRH about the friendliness of 'raves'. She told him, if he was interested, that everyone puts their arms around each other. To which the prince replied: 'Ah, one does not have to be introduced.' Independent, 1993

A talent for forgetting is necessary to maintain civility.

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

A girl can't feel like a lady with a bottle of beer before her.

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners .

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Anywhere but in England it would be impossible for two solitary men, howsoever much reduced by influenza, to spend five or six days in the same hostel and not exchange a single word. This is one of the charms of England.

She found the proper phrases to greet each person, affording them dignity and respect without relinquishing an iota of the respect due to her.

Out of the corner of his eye Wycliff saw the little maid's cheeks turn pink. He'd forgotten how adorably prudish and modest English women could be.

An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.

For you, Lady Copley, Lady Agatha wishes you to have her china set, since you complimented it." Blake bit back laughter at Lady Copley's expression. She had loathed the china set, obviously, and only complimented it as part of the games. But Agatha had known how to discern the truth from the lies.