Quotes About Etiquette

Mr. Beebe smiled as Miss Alan plunged into an anecdote which he knew she would be unable to finish in the presence of a gentleman.

He did not kiss her, for the hour was half-past twelve, and the car was passing by the stables of Buckingham Palace.

Aziz, may I have a drink?" "Certainly not!" He flew to get one.

It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behavior of those who gave rise to them.

Boys wandered about in a condition of unnatural civility

Set not thy foot too often in thy neighbor's house, lest he grow weary of thee and hate thee.

Recall the Proverb: "Set not thy foot too often in thy neighbor's house, lest he grow weary of thee and hate thee.

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.

Please don't throw your cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light.

Don't needle the seamstress.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas — that's what my grandma taught me.

Do not speak ill of the dead.

Man 1: Where are you from? Man 2: From a place where we do not end sentences with prepositions. Man 1: Okay, where are you from, jackass?

Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

the princeps would often arrive late and leave early, letting his guests start and finish without him.

For him, politeness was a surgical mask, something he slipped on before he took out his scalpel.

It would upset me to have to be discourteous to you, so I would be obliged if you did not communicate with me again except, of course, in the most urgent circumstances. I wish you a good evening.' It

As a rule, I don't go to funerals. I find them too horrible and upsetting and the older I get, of course, the more invitations I receive. As a favour to my friends, I'll make sure that none of them are told the date of mine.

There were even proper cloth serviettes in metal rings. Who does that anymore? What's wrong with a square of kitchen roll?

and anyway, in America, bribing a politician is part of the etiquette.

One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.