Quotes About Etiquette

I'd love to have tea and scones with the Queen; she's my idol.

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word.

In a shooting day in the U.K., every few hours, everyone takes a bit of a tea break - not coffee, but a tea break. They bring out these little finger sandwiches with the crust cut off. Everyone sits around for a few minutes, with their pinkies in the air, drinking. It's so cultured.

You'd be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner in a bustling restaurant.

I always found it strange, when I went round to other people's houses for tea and that, how strict their parents were.

My grandmother used to teach me that it's bad manners to invite yourself to somebody's house.

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.

I believe in teaching manners without causing fisticuffs.

Salary matters shouldn't be told to everyone. It's a matter of respect for my teammates.

What was the correct procedure here? Was he supposed to kiss me? Was I supposed to let him? Had that been the real price of my salad?

life is too short to dance with an ugly woman

The head of Goldwater's California operation "what was so uncomfortable around people that he worked up a routine to deal with employees with whom he was forced to share an elevator: "Taken your vacation yet?" he would ask when they entered; answer took just long enough to deliver him to his fourth-floor office.

I remember when the standard farewell when I set off on another trip was "Bon voyage!" But today, Americans tend to say, "Have a safe trip." (When I hear this, I'm inclined to say, "Well, you have a safe stay-at-home—because where I'm going is statistically much safer than where you're staying.")

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."

Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.

Do not humiliate, disrespect or embarrass; always speak with a soft tongue when holding your ground. To be loud, rude and obnoxious will negate the argument and advantage. And truth is always mandatory.

How many times have we encountered a person that states, "can I ask a question," and proceeds to ask the question before you can respond. In these cases, they've given us a choice and then take it away. What they're really doing here, is making a statement and not asking you to decide.

But "ma'am" doesn't translate in the North, where it just startles and offends.