Quotes about Etiquette

If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

I didn't vote for [President Bush]. But I've never said anything bad about the guy because I have respect for the office.

One of the things I was taught as a child, and which I taught my children also, is never to go to anyone's house without bringing something — never visit anyone without bringing them a gift.

At the end of the day, we can talk about anything but we have to be respectful.

I don't eat with beautiful women alone.

Vulgarity, in my mind, is not cool.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

And by the way, my dear,' he said, 'you might just mention to Mrs. Sutton that if she must read the morning paper before I come down, I should be obliged if she would fold it neatly afterwards.' 'What an old fuss-box you are, darling,' said his wife. Mr. Mummery sighed. He could not explain that it was somehow important that the morning paper should come to him fresh and prim, like a virgin. Women did not feel these things. (Suspicion)

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.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.