Quotes About Etiquette

When it comes to fighting and other fighters, I try to be respectful.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that.

The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

Golf is a game with morals. There's always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That's why it's a gentleman's game.

Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

I wouldn't fart in front of my wife, and she wouldn't do it in front of me.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and that you should have class.

Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing.

Somebody told me a story where they met a celebrity when they were six years old, and the celebrity was really mean. They still remember that to this day. I never want some 22-year-old in ten years' time to say, 'I met Madelaine Petcsh, and it ruined my idea of celebrities,' so I'm always aware.

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.

Booing - I never like it. We see it in other sports all the time, but in tennis, it's rare.

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care.'

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be polite.

You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. You were also not supposed to tell any stories that reflected badly on the group because that reflected badly on the race. I use past tense, but it still feels like present tense.