Top 100 Quotes About Etiquette
#1. Yes," said Jalem as he returned to his brushing. "You've obviously done a superb job so far. Tell me, do I need to make an appointment to try and kill Drothe, or is it simply on a first-come, first-served basis? I can never keep kin etiquette straight.
Douglas Hulick
#2. The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.
Marc Almond
#3. The internet is insecure by default. Netiquette and security certificates add a level of safety.
David Chiles
#4. In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, there's actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, that's their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.
Tom Glavine
#6. Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
Judith Martin
#7. Okay, I cannot say this without being very direct. If you are looking for a spouse or even a romance through social media, you are looking for trouble.
John Patrick Hickey
#8. It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging.
David Chiles
#9. If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.
Judith Martin
#10. On my way out I didn't look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn't look at him because I didn't believe he was a terrorist, but maybe I didn't look at him because I didn't want to embarrass him.
Assaf Gavron
#11. Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.
Emily Post
#12. Lord Chesterfield advises his son "to speak often, but not to speak much at a time; so that if he does not please, he will not at least displease to any great extent."
Rousseau tells us, that, "persons who know little, talk a great deal, while those who know a great deal say very little.
Arthur Martine
#13. To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death, where is thy sting? Search me. I grew up looking at so many corpses that I still feel a faint touch of surprise whenever I see people move.
Florence King
#14. Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution.
David Chiles
#15. 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
#16. Travel Etiquette: When dealing with foreigners, pretend you are Canadian.
Chelsea Handler
#17. The internet is bringing our collective conscious together by showing the good and bad in humanity. Good Netiquette is the outcome.
David Chiles
#18. It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.
Andrew Levkoff
#19. In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King
#20. It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.
Sara Sheridan
#21. Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
Anne Tyler
#22. So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.
Rose Macaulay
#23. And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.
Charlize Theron
#24. Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules.
David Chiles
#25. Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?
Jennifer Estep
#26. The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
Jean De La Bruyere
#27. Doing the right thing irl (in real life) or online is good netiquette, but it is not always easy.
David Chiles
#28. Try to be polite."
"I'm always polite."
"You're always eyeing people's valuables. That's hardly polite.
Jodi Meadows
#29. The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best.
Paul Babicki
#30. The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Proper driving etiquette demands that you basically get close enough to a car in front of you at a busy intersection that it would mean that in certain third-world countries, or South Carolina, you would have to get married.
Celia Rivenbark
#32. It was hard to judge a man's full character by his bachelor party etiquette.
Lola Dodge
#33. Date etiquette lesson number two: Don't die. Go on living.
Haruki Murakami
#34. Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.
Ambrose Bierce
#35. So there's an ... an etiquette to raking. Some seducer's code of honor. Is this what you're telling me?
Tessa Dare
#36. The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.
Frederick Lenz
#37. Another fairy flew up, carrying a spear and wearing a helmet and not much else. I thought about asking why he had armor on his head and not his balls, but I didn't think that was proper etiquette while being held prisoner by the Dark Woods fairies.
T.J. Klune
#38. We have gotten so use to humor being something nasty and offensive that we started to believe that was the only way to get a laugh.
John Patrick Hickey
#39. They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
Joseph Heller
#40. Civility (sabhyata,) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquette is the sign of one with a wrong belief (deluded view, bhranti).
Dada Bhagwan
#42. The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.
Mason Cooley
#43. I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.
Scott Lynch
#44. It is always correct to recommend that someone seek medical advice, in a truly caring way of course, if you feel that their condition is letting them down at the highest social levels.
Jonathan Rice
#45. An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.
John Battelle
#46. So the coffee came and I tasted it - a hot, foul, acidic, dual-carbon compound liquid - and I spat it out all over her. A major breach of human etiquette: apparently, I was meant to swallow
Matt Haig
#47. Pay it forward with free compliments. They are returned in due time.
David Chiles
#48. Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.
Alexandre Dumas
#49. I believe that when a person has hope in the future, believe in their ability to achieve and understand that God made them for a purpose, then they will, in the end, and achieve great things.
John Patrick Hickey
#50. It's not about the rules - it's about the relationships.
Lydia Ramsey
#51. It's good netiquette to empathize with others online. It builds strong internet relationships.
David Chiles
#52. We met when we were both majoring in Space Invaders with a Pub Etiquette minor at the Happy Harbor Campus of UMass/Boston.
Dennis Lehane
#53. Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back.
John Patrick Hickey
#54. I was amused to note that even vampires obeyed the unwritten rules of elevator etiquette.
Jim C. Hines
#55. Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.
Judith Martin
#56. Google chrome is not safe. The browser is prone to hacks at Starbucks.
David Chiles
#57. Holiday Greetings shared through eCards are good #Netiquette. Make a list and check it twice.
David Chiles
#58. Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.
Brittany Howard
#60. Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.
Judith Martin
#61. Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella-her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do? I wondered. Then I congragulated myself. This was a Stage 3 thought.
Karen Russell
#62. Emily Post's Etiquette is out again, this time in a new and an enlarged edition, and so the question of what to do with my evenings has been all fixed up for me.
Dorothy Parker
#63. Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.
Beau Brummell
#65. No one said learning etiquette and espionage would be easy, my dear.
Gail Carriger
#66. It's proper Netiquette to view in-App webpages in a mobile browser for better security.
David Chiles
#67. I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
George Mason
#68. It is proper netiquette to refrain from using all capital letters in internet correspondence. NetworkEtiquette
David Chiles
#69. The way you treat your food on your plate is a reflection of the way you treat people in your life. Learning how to dine teaches you not just how to eat but how to treat people.
Rajiv Talreja
#70. Nice clothes are all very well, but if gossip and scheming and worry and silly parties and tiny rules of etiquette go with them ... no. I'd as soon live in my shift and say what I like.
Diana Gabaldon
#71. I have read or been told that in a book of etiquette of the seventeenth century the very first rule forbids you to tell your dreams to other people, since they cannot possibly be of interest to them.
Isak Dinesen
#72. Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
Emily Post
#73. Now, darlin', you know that social etiquette is bred into us Southern girls." "Oh, please. You're as Southern as Tony Soprano." Mama sniffed. "I swear, I should have left you by the side of the road in Wheeling, West Virginia." "You did leave me there.
Kristin Hannah
#74. The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
Paul Theroux
#75. The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.
Maralee McKee
#76. Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.
Terrence Howard
#77. Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'
Letitia Baldrige
#79. No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.
Don Rittner
#80. I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
Amy Vanderbilt
#81. So, why are so many people lacking in an understanding of the rules? No one has ever taught them!
John J. Daly Jr.
#82. Every step she took seemed to show her a new danger. Talking to strangers could kill her. Failing to remember table etiquette could kill her. Ignorance could kill her. And now it seemed that stepping outside the tasters' chambers for a stroll could kill her.
Frances Hardinge
#83. Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people.
John Patrick Hickey
#84. I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was 'excuse me'.
Bauvard
#86. Keep the personal, personal and do not be guilty of spreading bad feelings.
John Patrick Hickey
#87. I didn't offer to help him carry any of his stuff. That's the unwritten code between cabbies and movers ... It's his punishment for tricking the cab driver into playing Mayflower, because he knows he's not going to give you a tip, and so do you.
Gary Reilly
#88. If your happy and you know it a smiley face will surely show it.
David Chiles
#89. England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.
Virginia Graham
#90. By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending requests is an act of bad manners as well as being very annoying to the one receiving them.
John Patrick Hickey
#91. Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#92. On Proper Etiquette for Borrowing His Car You borrowed the car, and now it smells like shit. I don't care if you smell like shit, that's your business. But when you shit up my car, then that's my business. Take it somewhere and un-shit that smell.
Justin Halpern
#93. Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die ... #AHOLE
A.O. Storm
#94. If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.
Kathleen Rooney
#95. Abhorrent and beyond inappropriate, reachable only through hours of hiking into the Realm of Really Goddam Wrong.
Sarah Wendell
#96. Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.
Judith Martin
#97. Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#98. Every decision you ever make has its own consequences. Freedom is not the issue. You have freedom to do what you want, you just cannot do it and not pay the price for it.
John Patrick Hickey
#99. To be truly grateful for the kindness of other and to have those you love in your life is a great and powerful emotion.
John Patrick Hickey
#100. There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. Actually, it's probably easier. And these days, there are a lot more women out there than there used to be. It's not like when I was young. I was always the only girl on the range.
Paula Creamer
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