Quotes About Formality

Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!

Smile in front of the queen?" she said with a feigned gasp of disapproval. 'Surely that's not allowed!

posture appropriate for a formal interview is not the posture assumed when talking with a friend. Posture seems well under control and successfully managed when someone is deceiving. I and others studying

The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.

The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.

their stay when it was to take place with full formality.

Well, you know the form,' Bedingfield says. 'She lives in that room and has her ladies – those ones – cook for her over the fire. You knock and go in, and if you call her Lady Katherine she kicks you out, and if you call her Your Highness she lets you stay. So I call her nothing. You, I call her. As if she were a girl that scrubs the steps.

Oh, Micheal darling!" "Don't call me darling, I'm a driving instructor!

But Napoleon was deeply respectful of road signs and tiny clauses on bureaucratic forms. For him, rules were about politeness and respect and ensuring the survival of a civilized society.

Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand.

I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so nobody could see me.

German greeting

The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided—after weeks or months or sometimes years—that he likes you.

Grusspflicht.

There's nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls.

Your Grace," he said, bowing as if it was perfectly normal for him to have an ermine weasel clinging to him like a leech.

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

That's just a fiction," I said, "a little game of protocol." "Little games of protocol are how one shows respect, especially to those with whom one does not get along famously well. It can be tedious, but generally is less trouble than a duel would be.

Respect the emotion in someones heart rather than the expression on someones faces. Because expression is just formality but emotions are reality.

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.

Ash has worked with my dad, so I have to call her Aunty, na?

Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.

For Nautzera there was no present, only the clamour of a harrowing past and the threat of a corresponding future. For Nautzera, the present had receded to a point, had become the precarious fulcrum whereby history leveraged destiny. A mere formality.