Quotes About Etiquette

Changing from 'kind regards' to just 'regards', to indicate that you're rapidly reaching the end of your tether.

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Tourists were not to be comprehended among those strangers for whom, notoriously, the word is the same as for guests.

Vocabulary ????(?????) ohay? (gozaimasu) good morning ????? konnichiwa hello/good day/good afternoon ????? kombanwa good evening ???? moshi-moshi hello (telephone)

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you."

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

When the great lord passes, the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts. Ethiophan proverb

Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose.... LORD CHESTERFIELD, 1694-1773

Cicero himself appeared, hand in hand with Tullia, nodding good morning to everyone, greeting each by name ("the first rule in politics, Tiro: never forget a face").

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef! As my lord says, Nerim murmured. My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me.

There were questions one asked, and questions one did not. That was strong custom. And friendship.

Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.

As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.

only a complete woolhead looked at a woman while with another.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them, Pevara Sedai," Emarin said. "It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

To quote President Harry Truman, "Always be nice to all the people who can't talk back to you. I can't stand a man or woman who bawls out underlings to satisfy

I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea, said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.

Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

I could spank Constantine and skin him alive afterwards, that I could, she exclaimed bitterly. Oh, Susan, I'm surprised at you, said the doctor, pulling a long face. Have you no regard for the proprieties? Skin him alive by all means but omit the spanking.

I am teaching Perry grammar. He says he wants to learn to speak properly. I told him he should not call his Aunt Tom an old beast but he said he had to because she wasn't a young beast.

it is easier to behave nicely when you have your good clothes on.

He never had any sense of decorum Ã¢â'¬Â¦ always kissing his wife in the most unsuitable places!' (Are you sure you kiss me in suitable places, Gilbert? I'm afraid Mrs. Gibson would think the nape of the neck, for instance, most unsuitable.) 'But