Quotes About Etiquette

Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.

Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.

As to the new pope, scarcely had he completed the formalities of etiquette which his exaltation imposed upon him, and paid to each man the price of his simony, when from the height of the Vatican he cast his eyes upon Europe, a vast political game of chess, which he cherished the hope of directing at the will of his own genius.

ma il cuore della donna è così fatto, che per quanto diventi arido al soffio dei pregiudizi o alle esigenze dell'etichetta, mantiene sempre un angolo fertile e ridente: quello che Dio ha consacrato all'amore materno.

lawyers always give you very bad dinners. You would think they felt some remorse;

I know that the world is a salon which we ought to leave politely and honestly; that is, after saluting and paying our gambling debts.

On vous pardonne, Renée, dit la marquise avec un sourire de tendresse qu'on était étonné de voir fleurir sur cette sèche figure ; mais le cÅ"ur de la femme est ainsi fait, que si aride qu'il devienne au souffle des préjugés et aux exigences de l'étiquette, il y a toujours un coin fertile et riant : c'est celui que Dieu a consacré à l'amour maternel

lawyers always give you very bad dinners.

There are people who laugh at the horse who would not dare to laugh at the master.

Punctuality,' said Monte Cristo, 'is the politeness of kings, or so I believe one of your sovereigns claimed.

But the heart of a woman is such that, however arid it may become when the winds of prejudice and the demands of etiquette have blown across it, there always remains one corner that is radiant and fertile -the one that God has dedicated to maternal love.

Among worldly people manner is contagious.

Je sais que le monde est un salon dont il faut sortir poliment et honnêtement, c'est-à-dire en saluant et en payant ses dettes de jeu.

If I have been your friend, Morcerf, your present manner of speaking would almost lead me to forget that I ever bore that title.

Our mother is too well bred to hate,' Franny said. 'She disapproves.