Quotes About Etiquette

Before her, with sharp blue eyes and perfectly coiffed blond hair, was Josephine Marie Elizabeth Cavendish, Her Grace, the Duchess of Durham, widow of the fifth duke, and aunt to the Cavendish siblings. One did not call her Josie. Amelia had asked.

I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

the Please was more like a command than a request

Mother gave a flick of a glance at the fork in Tori's hand. "Children without manners are a wound in a mother's side.

In no country is it more important to cultivate good manners, than in our own," Eliza Farrar wrote, "where we acknowledge no distinctions but what are founded on character and manners." America's

I know she's young, but she's old enough to know that such blatant bumpwatching is just about the rudest thing you can do to someone in my concave condition.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

Vivianca called me to see how you liked the cookies. I didn't realize I was supposed to share. So here I am, milady, with cookies and a glass of warm milk for you.

Fart: to break wind behind. As when we gun discharge Although the bore be ne'er so large Before the flame the muzzle burst Just at the breech it flashes first; So from my lord his passion broke, He farted first and then he spoke.

Culture makes all men gentle.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

Be classy, if you must say anything at all. I think silence is very classy.

Accustomed to being listened to, he did not courteously intersperse his comments with questions about Elijah's life and work. He simply held forth.

Still, clothing is a language of respects, he reminds himself, a world of manners that is the basic level of human charity.

Still, clothing is a language of respect, he reminds himself, a world of manners that is the basic level of human charity.

He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.

In an Englishwoman her abruptness would have been viewed as bad manners, but it was normal to afford Americans somewhat greater license.

In an Englishwoman her abruptness would have been viewed as bad manners, but it was normal to afford Americans somewhat greater license. They talked, ate, dressed differently, were even different in bed so Urquhart had been told, although he had no firsthand experience.

Huxley blushed – he didn't expect that response, though he should have. You don't insult a Neapolitan to his face,

Although he had not participated in building their fences, he must not cross their fields.

Das ist das Höchste. Ruhig auf dem Rücken liegen und dabei keine Schlafgeräusche entstehen lassen. Das stört mich, wenn einer Schlafgeräusche von sich gibt. Wenn einer in meiner Nähe schnarcht oder stöhnt oder lallt, dann hau ich dem eine runter. Mehrmals pro Nacht. Am nächsten Tag frage ich besorgt, ob er gut geschlafen habe.

he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum.

Wiem, co nale?y robi?, ?eby uchodzi? za cz?owieka mi?ego; nie jestem idiot?. Tyle ?e nie mam na to ochoty.