Quotes About Etiquette

Even if you think such things, why do you say them?" she scolded. "If you'd just think what you please but keep your mouth shut, everything would be so much nicer.

Captain Butler, you must not hold me so tightly. Everybody is looking. If no one were looking, would you care?

Sir, she said, you are no gentleman! An apt observation, he answered airily. And you, Miss, are no lady.

A gentleman always appeared to believe a lady even when he knew she was lying. That was Southern chivalry. A gentleman always obeyed the rules and said the correct things and made life easier for a lady.

You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate," Ellen told her daughter. "You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

Sir," she said, "you are no gentleman!" "An apt observation," he answered airily. "And, you, Miss, are no lady.

Los modales le habían sido impuestos por las amables amonestaciones y la severa disciplina de su madre;

Tweet others the way you want to want to be tweeted.

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

Don't ever interrupt me again. And next time you do, show me the proper respect.

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.