Quotes about Etiquette
I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.
- John Updike
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.
- Gordon Hinckley
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
- Zig Ziglar
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- GK Chesterton
Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
- Will Rogers
I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.
- David Ogilvy
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson