Quotes about Etiquette
Then the host who invited both of you will come and tell you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ And in humiliation, you will have to take the last place.
- Luke 14:9
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
And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should stop.
- 1 Corinthians 14:30
Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.
- Travis Thrasher
Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.
- J. Sidlow Baxter
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
- Cicero
when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . .
- Peter Kreeft
Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
- Confucius
If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.
- Aesop
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
- Lewis Carroll
I soon learned there was a very Indian habit of asking personal questions.
- Gloria Steinem
The habit of saying thank you is the mark of a cultivated mind.
- Gordon Hinckley