Quotes About Etiquette

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a guy's wearing flip-flop sandals, which I don't understand. Men's feet are disgusting to begin with, but now they're on display when I try to go out for a nice steak at a restaurant, and I have to sit there and look at some guy's hoof? I don't get it. I don't understand it.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

There's definitely been some looks throughout history on the golf course that would make people say, 'woah, what's this guy wearing?!' if they were to walk into a restaurant.

What should be covered must be covered. Women should not trouble others by wearing jeans.

Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.

Your wedding day is supposed to be your big day, and yet a lot of engaged couples find that instead of creating an event that will be important to them, they're dodging through a minefield of modern etiquette traps.

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

No matter how you handle alcohol at your wedding, you will most likely be upsetting someone.

If you have a guy over, and there's a whole bunch of china from your wedding, it's not a good idea.

It's very nice to be asked to anybody's wedding. Particularly if it's the Prince of Wales. I learned a lot from it, which was to end early and get away. I suppose one would have to look back historically and see who other royals had at their weddings. Were there people at Queen Elizabeth's wedding who were common like myself?

It's better not to wear too much jewellery - just a couple of nice things, nothing too rattly - and stick to kitten heels or flats. Women let themselves down with tall heels. I think they're kind of vulgar. I see women sinking into grass at outdoor parties or tiptoeing over gravel at weddings. It's silly. You need to be practical.

I think there's always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have, I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.

We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'

Poise is a word that seems to have slipped out of the lexicon. There's no emoji for it.

Just because you're sitting at a poker table with some guy doesn't give him the right to say whatever the hell he wants about the way you live your life.

I couldn't take that whole retail thing of being polite to people that are not being polite to you, and showing respect to people when they've got no respect for you. Retail in general is something I just can't do, unless it's my own shop.

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.