Quotes About Etiquette

generals outrank colonels who, in turn, outrank majors and captains and lieutenants, and everyone, but everyone, outranks children. Within the ranks of children, boys always outrank girls. One way of grinding this particularly irritating pecking order into the young girls was to teach them the old and ridiculous art of curtsying.

I remember Laura was demonstrating to me an especially disgusting way of blowing your nose for when you really wanted to put off a boy.

What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of this inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public'.

One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.

We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him the lecture, including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the Alpha, which was only slightly more complicated than an audience with the queen. Don't sit until you're invited to. Don't talk unless he asks you a question. Don't eat before he does. Don't make direct eye contact. Jeremy demanded none of this, but that wasn't the point.

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

Are you coming now? Griffin snapped. Karl glanced over at him and smiled. What's the magic word? Griffin stalked off, muttering a word under his breath. That's not it, Karl called after him.

My phone chirped with a text. When I made no movement to answer, Gabriel fished the phone from my pocket and checked. The possibility that might be considered rude never occurs to him.

Fitz did not censor her mail but, as the head of the family, he had the right to read any letter addressed to a female relative living in his house. No respectable woman would object.

Even lords ought to follow the customs.

But you should go to bed." "With your ladyship's permission, I'd like to stay up until Lord Remarc telephones again.

She now welcomed him to her bedroom, dressed in pretty nightwear, offering him her scented body as she had when they were first married. In the end she was a well-brought-up aristocratic woman and she knew what a wife was for.

They was no need to dress formally just for me, but all the same I appreciate the gesture.

She knew how to behave at ceremonies: move slowly, smile at everyone, do what you're told, and if no one tells you what to do, stand still.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying'

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

I think the dead should shut up unless there's something to say

this German officer produced a cigar before Mannerheim had finished eating and asked if it would bother the Marshal if he smoked it. Mannerheim fixed the Wehrmacht officer with a gaze that would penetrate armor plate and cut him dead by replying evenly: 'I don't know. No one has ever tried it.' ',

The mirror of all courtesy.

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.

O Kate! nice customs curtsy to great kings.