etiquette Quotes

Get used to doing without a reason to annoy others. (Anatoly Yurkin)

Aristocracy is the exoskeleton of etiquette. (Anatoly Yurkin)

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

I think that there's etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don't think you should end a relationship with a Post-it note. I know some people who get offended when an e-mail is sent as a \'thank you\' note instead of a hand-written card.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

So there's an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer's code of honor. Is this what you're telling me?

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy.\' The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. \'I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.

The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it.

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?

I thought,\' Shad said slowly, \'that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.\'\'True,\' Derian assured him. \'Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

I'm completely at ease on a set. I'm pretty comfortable most places, but hitting the mark and knowing set etiquette and understanding cameras and lenses are second nature. It's a language I've spoken for years.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.

passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette.

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.