Quotes About Etiquette

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

Remain dignified, dress well, be good to other people and you'll be fine.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.