Quotes About Etiquette

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

Dorks are not exempt from bad behaviour.

Filtering isn't phoniness—it's civilization.

She noted with pleasure that he'd already dispensed with a salutation

Never mind what's going on underneath. As long as we're all 'civil.

To tugboat was to try Minna's patience. Any time you pushed your luck, said too much, overstayed a welcome, or overestimated the usefulness of a given method or approach, you were guilty of having tugged the boat. Tugboating was most of all a dysfunction of wits and storytellers, and a universal one. Anybody who thought himself funny would likely tug a boat here or there. Knowing when a joke or verbal gambit was right at its limit, quitting before the boat had been tugged, that was art.

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits....

Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

Tata krama adalah seni untuk membuat orang merasa tidak canggung bercakap-cakap dengan kita.

Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.

nas relações vulgares da vida, parecem estúpidos, mazombos, enfadonhos, malcriados.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.

give a New York friend a panic attack, turn up unannounced on a Wednesday and suggest going for a drink. It is easier to organize five guys to raise a flag on Iwo Jima than to get mates out for movie and dinner. Surprise parties are such fun, but require e-mail "save the date" warnings. And everyone needs to know how to dress.

Ronald Reagan was a man who knew the diplomatic form. He also had a showman's ear for a tune. So when, at an official dinner, the marine band slipped into 'Edelweiss', he stopped mid-anecdote, rose to his feet, placed a reverential hand over his heart and stared into the blank mid-distance out of respect for the Austrian national anthem.

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

Now, what can I do for you, Agent Hayes?" "It's just R.C., thanks." He wondered for a second if he should have business cards printed up saying that. "What

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Your tits are bigger," Shiva said. "SHIVA!" Hema and Ghosh said at the same time. "Sorry," he said, surprised by their reaction. "I meant her breasts are bigger," he said. "SHIVA! That isn't the sort of thing you say to a woman," Hema said. "I can't say it to a man," Shiva said, looking impatient.

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

When a girl turns down your advances, the polite thing to do is just move on.

We say "please" to our children to model a socially acceptable way to make a small request. But "please" lends itself best to our more relaxed moments.