Quotes About Etiquette

Breeding. It takes real breeding to make a person feel like shit with one word.

Bogie did not believe in in-laws living with husband and wife, and he didn't believe in anyone dropping in, relatives, even mothers, included. His rule was absolute: Call before and wait for an invitation. His home was sacred, and privacy to be respected.

I'm sorry I was such a cow this afternoon, Violet," Kelly says to me. "It was really nice of you to eat my pasta." "Paige put hers in her napkin," I say. "Oh really?" Kelly manages a giggle. "I should do that next time.

I'm not an etiquette expert, but I can't help feeling that knocking our hostess's daughter over a stone balcony might not be considered the most appropriate way to celebrate the first full day of our summer course.

His mother made a noise that in anyone of lower rank than a countess would have been given the unmannerly name of snort. As a cowed member of the ton had once commented, 'Nobody harrumphs quite like the Marchioness of Uppington.

But still, it was too awful a moment. A man should never walk out on his wife while they have company.

One had to be careful with elbows and boys

I realized that you don't try on a pair of pants, fart in them, and then put them back on the shelf, and the same rough politeness applied here, too. Plain and simple, I bled on it, I bought it.

And you know, I really have to say this: If your baby isn't even in the room and you can't bear to come equipped with a blanket, kindly put your boob away in its rightful compartment. Don't leave it hanging out for ten to fifteen minutes at a barbecue like you're waiting for someone to hang a Christmas ornament on it.

As my grandmother used to say, if you've got nothing good to say about someone, let's hear it.

The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

I think it's very sad, when Barack Obama lands in Saudi Arabia, and he lands in Cuba, and there aren't high officials to even greet him.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

Nice dress, " Victoria said."Thank you, " Perpetua said. "Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?"Victoria blinked. "Uh, what?

You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.