Quotes About Etiquette

It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain.

Anyone I go to Nobu with who gets rock shrimp, I freak out on them.

To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death, where is thy sting? Search me. I grew up looking at so many corpses that I still feel a faint touch of surprise whenever I see people move.

How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?

It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste.

Sylvia was a lady and would not allow herself really to care for the person in the world for whom it would be least decent of her to care...But

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The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.

I was thinking, she said. Beg my pardon immediately, said Miss Minchin. I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude, said Sara; but I won't beg your pardon for thinking.

Pamela slipped her arm around Churchill's shoulders. "Try not to mind, darling. Americans don't mean to be beastly and offensive. They simply can't help it. They're like rude children playing at soldiers—they've no notion how deadly serious it all is.

How inappropriate,' Lila said coldly. 'Who'd ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she's going to do all night?

Elizabeth walked past just as Mrs. Ferguson, pulling down her wide-brimmed hat, announced that teenagers today were the most inconsiderate creatures she had ever seen. 'I'm afraid I have to agree with you,' Elizabeth had heard her twin say mournfully, clearly distinguishing herself from the inconsiderate teenagers milling all around them.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

You will address me as Sire or my Lord," Paul said.

And, I should add, except when you see it at the dinner table.

Never smoke another man's pipe.

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.