Quotes about Etiquette

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Do not speak ill of the dead.

Man 1: Where are you from? Man 2: From a place where we do not end sentences with prepositions. Man 1: Okay, where are you from, jackass?

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

My only hope was to be polite.

It was the old New York way of taking life without effusion of blood: the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than scenes, except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.

It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.