Eating Manners Quotes

#1. Posting something that is encouraging and well done compared to something that is trashy and common is the difference between eating a fine meal or the scraps from making that meal.

John Patrick Hickey

#2. Eating grapes with a knife and fork is not what one would call refined. It is what one would call ludicrous.

Judith Martin

#3. Vijaya prefers to eat alone. Rob ushered her into the room and held a chair for her, then sat across from her. "Many Indians regard eating as something that should be done in private. Considering the table manners of some of our best people, one can see their point."
Patricia Frances Rowell

Patricia Frances Rowell

#4. Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question.

Margaret Visser

#5. Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners.

Douglas Preston

#6. When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that's because I don't eat at a table, I eat at my desk. Which could be considered a table, except we tend to define things by their function, and this particular surface is a desk, so perhaps piggish is unfair.

Kelli Jae Baeli

#7. He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn't done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.

Kate Chisman

#8. Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!

Anthony Liccione

#9. Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

Jeremy Collier

#10. Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Bennett Cerf

#11. Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

Brian Jacques