Quotes About Etiquette

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

Comme il n'y avait pas de couverts, il a mangé avec ses doigts, mais en utilisant sa main gauche, ce qui est très grave, et constitue une offense délibérée dans l'Atlas, où la main gauche est considérée comme impure, m'a expliqué Valérie tandis que l'habitant nous jetait hors de sa maison. Étrange Aziz. Provocateur, irréligieux, inculte, ignorant de ses propres traditions ? Non. Il me tend des perches.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Don't ever be late. It's like proclaiming that your time is more important than someone else's.

We have caller ID. We know who you are. If we wanted to talk to you, we would have picked up, but obviously we didn't. If you have anything at all that's important to say, you'll have to say it on the machine.

No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.

Professor Asshole would never hold a door open, considering it a condescending, paternalistic passive-aggressive gesture perpetuating the male power structure.

he wanted to be best man. "That's old-school shit," Malone said. "That was our parents, our grandparents, it don't necessarily work that way anymore.

understood that in the business environment it was considered a gesture of civilization to offer the guest something to drink without booze in it, and probably a hostile act to refuse it, so he said, "Seltzer, yeah, sounds good.

Always call them 'Sir.' They aren't any harder to kill later!

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Elegance is a discipline of life.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Oh and I also got cross at a dinner once when this woman was going on and on about how she would never read on download, that there was nothing like a real book and – I promise I normally am never rude to people but she was being truly insufferable – I said, 'Well, they're really only for people who read a lot' which was mean of me but quite satisfying also.