Quotes about Etiquette

It isn't etiquette to cut anyone you've been introduced to. Remove the joint!

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

Relating personal problems to associates and customers. Your personal problems are important to you—and only you. Everyone has their share and they don't want to hear about yours.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

In Chile it is bad manners to acknowledge that you're overly satisfied, because that can irritate the less fortunate, which is why for us the correct answer to the question "How are you?" is "So-so." That is an opening for sympathizing with the other speaker's situation.

The national sport is to talk about the person who just left the room. In this, too, we are different from our idols, the English, whose principles forbid them from making personal remarks.

If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.