Quotes About Etiquette

When you're a kid, helping an old lady across the street is kind of cute. But when you're an adult, it's just plain creepy.

If you are someone's guest on a corporate jet, the most important thing to remember is not just to be on time, but to be early. If you hold up the departure of the jet by as much as 10 minutes, you may cause the plane to wait in line for another hour or two before obtaining new clearance.

There should be an F.A.A. fine for those who bring hot food that emits odor onto the plane. You're deemed selfish, and you have to take some sort of social awareness class.

Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

In Germany, it is normal, when games end, you shake hands with your players.

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.

Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

A person's body changing is simply not clearance for you to talk about it.

I'm not a fan of people coming in the clubhouse.

Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.

I can't stand cocky, rude people.

I've told stories about people coming to my office and giving me their coats and requesting that I hang them up and get coffee - which I dutifully do. And then I come in and sit at the head of the table. It's awkward.

I don't party with my colleagues after work.

I've been around comedians that try their bits around you. I hate that.

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.

I don't comment on other people's opinion.