Quotes about Etiquette
If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.
- Phil Taylor
If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
- Oscar Wilde
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
- Oscar Wilde
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
- Oscar Wilde
Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.
- Oscar Wilde
My dear Hiram, cried Mrs. Otis, what can we do with a woman who faints? Charge it to her like breakages, answered the Minister; she won't faint after that;
- Oscar Wilde
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you'll never be invited to a party.
- Oscar Wilde
Do you smoke? Jack. Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell. I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
- Oscar Wilde
My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.
- Oscar Wilde
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.
- Oscar Wilde
PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.
- Dale Carnegie
Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
- Lewis Carroll