Quotes About Etiquette

Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? ' Oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought!

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

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There are things you don't do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape.

Atlanta, Georgia—a city where little girls in $50 smocked dresses romp around on filthy playgrounds. Where every freshly birthed Southern baby gets two names and women wear pastel pantsuits to lunch. These ladies instinctively understand closed-toed shoes and slips and no-white-after-Labor-Day-unless-it-is-winter-white.

Thou may leave the toilet seat up. But thou shalt not leave the toilet seat down and pee on it.

Mrs. Leigh-Waters looked even more distressed. "Oh, Louisa, you mustn't..." "Speak ill of the dead?" Daniel asked, before Louisa could answer. "It's not the done thing, no, but death doesn't change what a person was in life.

he politely didn't lock her in a basement and

Please don't call me darling. Or honey, or sugar." The man lifted his hands. "Sor-ree," he said. "Sweetheart." Haley

He is very good to her," Juliana said. She lifted one of the teacups from the tray, admiring its fineness. Ainsley had been sweet to give them the set. Mahindar looked surprised. "But that is only natural, memsahib," he said. "After all

The courtesy was innate, based not simply on good manners, which could be taught, but on concern for other people, which was learned only by constant example.

Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady.

Disapproval flashed across John's face. I wondered whether no one was supposed to touch me while he was in uniform, either.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have made out with Everett. I'm saying you shouldn't have done it in his mother's scrapbooking room. Location, location, location. You might have disorganized her supplies. Some people are very particular about their chipboard getting mixed up with their cardstock.

Kind of like saying 'no offense' when you've just said something offensive?

Miss Hepplewhite looked pained. "Miss Peck," she said at last, "a young lady should never, ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, run. Should you find yourself in a situation where you are at risk, it is always preferable to faint.