Quotes About Etiquette

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

I pride myself on respecting my colleagues.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

I knew the shirt-swapping business in general was getting out of hand when opponents would ask me for my shirt while we were still mid-match. Those are the wrong priorities.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

Privacy is not really a concept in Japan.

There should be respect and privacy for any dead person.

I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private.

One should not poke their nose into the private life of other persons.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

I know, if I'm speaking to God in any kind of way, I keep myself from using profanity.

Bizarrely, on movie sets, they don't really dig it when you look in the camera, which is a bizarre fact.

Checking your phone during dinner is no less rude than reading 'People' during dinner, which I once saw a woman do at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn as she dined with her husband/boyfriend/whatever.

Don't ever take a seven-year-old with you to a campaign dinner - they will embarrass you no end.

When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.

We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.

I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.

No one has the right to dirty someone's personal space in any which way.

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

Dad knew how to disagree without being disagreeable or rude.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

Fans can write what they want, and if we don't want that, our accounts should be private. If it gets creepy and borderline disgusting, then I block them.

In India, public display of affection is frowned upon.