Quotes About Etiquette

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man!.

She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.

never use sarcasm in an email

never make the cost of saving face so high that a man must go elsewhere to show how generous he is.

No privacy left. No manners.

I haven't yet learned to call you by your first name, and Miss Nin sounds so stiff, like an invitation to tea.

If you smoke on a sailboat, flip your ashes or discard your cigarette on the side the sail is on, so the wind won't blow sparks or ashes or butts back into the boat. —Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette

My dear Prince, might I beg you to move a little more that way, for your nose casts such a shadow that I really cannot see what I have on my plate

there are many out-of-the-way things it is as well to know, but one should never boast of them.

And Less feels it swelling up within him, the phrase he does not want to say and yet, somehow, by the cruel checkmate logic of conversation, is compelled to say: "Thank you.

The notorious after-date phone call. If a guy called within three days, he liked you. If he waited a week, that meant he didn't have any better options and was probably just trying to get lucky. If he didn't call at all, well, that-was obvious.

together. "Thank you for being such polite

Can we visit her tonight?" I asked. "May we?" Janine, Mom, and Dad all corrected me at once.

Aunt Cecelia would have pulled a tissue out of her sleeve, but I let Becca be sloppy.)

It made me mad, anyway, that all they wanted to talk about was my family's personal finances. They weren't even interested in Wal-Mart, which was probably one of the best business stories going on anywhere in the world at the time, but it never even occurred to them to ask about the company.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates

Sopan santun banyak manfaatnya, tetapi tidak menuntut bayaran.

I pick up my cutlery: fork in my left hand, knife in my right -- European-style, like my mother.

Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.