Quotes About Etiquette

Gentlemen now went out without their usual entourage, but they could be seen carrying a bag over their arms on their way to shop for food. When two friends ran into each other on the street, they would say hello from a distance, in hurried, wordless gestures.

Talia: I was brought up to respect older people and peasants...not that you're... Jack: (clears throat) Quit while you're ahead Meryl: Ahead? She just called mom and old peasant.

In the occult, good manners matter, as they do in life, and perhaps even more so.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Z—ds! damn the lock! 'fore Gad, you must be civil!   Plague on't!'t is past a jest—nay prithee, pox!   Give her the hair"—he spoke, and rapp'd his box.

Every student doffed his hat when the president approached, and bowed as he passed, or faced his wrath. Freshmen, meanwhile, acted as flunkies for the upperclassmen, who exacted a very painful form of punishment on those unwise enough to tell them where to go. The first priority, apart from striving to

I find luxury only encourages guests to outstay their welcome. A reptile or two keeps everyone on their toes

Hey." Levet gave a sharp flap of his wings. "It is supposed to be farts before tarts." "What the -" Santiago made a sound of disgust. "Oh, for god's sake, it's bros before hos.

For God's sake, stop sniffing me," she gritted. "It is rude.

We all have neighbors. Greet them on the sidewalk or in the elevator, but try not to peer through their windows. Windows are to look out from, not into.

With messy food, or foods with a lot of sauce, you do 'The Hunch.' I learned it in Philly, watching the dudes in suits eat cheesesteaks. You keep your elbows above your hands because if you don't, the grease runs down your sleeve to your elbow.

Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves.

Something that really irritates me is when I come to a four-way stop, and I clearly have the right of way, and the other person who doesn't have the right of way waves for me to go. I'm like, 'Yeah, I know I can go.'

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

Kids today and for the last 20 years have held the fork and knife in unbelievable ways. They hold the fork with a fist and the knife like a saw and they shovel it in. It doesn't matter to them which way they hold their knife and fork. They eat every which way. I'm amazed they get food into their mouths at all.

I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned. It's very seldom that I walk into a room and parents make their children say hello and have a social grace with one another.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.