Quotes about Etiquette
As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm.
— Virginia Woolf
Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.
— Tana French
when you start displaying courtesy, politeness, and consideration, people start displaying them right back.
— John Wooden
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.
— Jeremiah 16:8
I don't eat with beautiful women alone.
— Billy Graham
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
— Mark Twain
But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you.
— Luke 14:10
Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land
— Genesis 23:12
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.
— JRR Tolkien
How do you do?" "How do you do?" echoed Mr. Ingleby. They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting. Mr. Hankin smiled kindly at them both.
— Dorothy Sayers
A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.
— Confucius
If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
— Proverbs 27:14