Etiquette Quotations

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

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.

The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'

Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of such outfits and jump at the chance to wear them. Against the etiquette about which I am otherwise all too conscious, I frequently, and unrepentantly, overdress for the occasion.

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

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.

When I won my way to the international science fair, I didn't want to embarrass myself. It was the first time I was going to be away from home, the first time taking an airplane. I went to the local library, checked out every single etiquette book, and I read those books like I was uncovering some sort of treasure.

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.

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.

We have new folks moving in who don't understand the proper etiquette for being a good neighbor to the fish. People move to the forest and then cut down the trees around their lot so they can have more sunlight.

There are written and unwritten rules of etiquette for the gym.

Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Many of us, if pressed, would admit that we'd prefer a cash gift to another pair of pajamas or bestselling novel. But giving the green can make even the best of us uncomfortable - the etiquette is confusing, and those who relish picking out the perfect something can miss some of the fun.

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.

He was friendly, courteous and unassuming. His course etiquette was wonderful, and I enjoyed playing with him often over the next two years before he went off to UK. He was also funny as hell, a trait I assume he also got from his dad, Maurice." ()

I will remember that modern business etiquette is gender-neutral. Whoever gets to a door first should open it.

I was excited. But we got lectured all these times about etiquette if you win a medal. At first I was looking for my flag to wave, but then I thought 'what if you're not supposed to carry your flag when you finish second, instead of first'? Then I wasn't sure if I could run around the track. You don't want to get captured on TV from a bad perspective. I was definitely excited, but I was a little lost, too.

I thought it not so much a question of Lehman's beliefs, more an indication of moral downfall. He has always regarded himself as someone who upheld the values of the game and its etiquette but on that day he was way off the mark, to the extent that I will never be able to look on him in the same light again.

You can do a lot to protect yourself by using hand hygiene, cough etiquette and staying home if you have a fever.

Today was pretty encouraging. She understands the etiquette of the track and how to avoid collisions. I feel a lot more positive about it, and probably less concerned about potential accidents or injury.

No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

Etiquette is saying that it's really OK to be nice.

The upper classes were trying to patrol their borders and make sure that the newly rich didn't cross. And etiquette manuals, some people argue, were a result of those people who wanted to enter these exclusive precincts, wanting a guide as to how to do it.

In cross-border deals, to me etiquette is not an 'edge' thing. It is a prerequisite to being effective.

If you have etiquette saying, 'you can't really get in a guy's face that much when he hits a double fault or if he misses an easy ball,' then absolutely. He is in the grey area.

By and large they are pretty good. There are some who are new and don't understand the library etiquette and sometimes my presence will calm them down.

Gentle reader: Yes, the thing to do is to ignore it. A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable

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

The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

The Linux community doesn't want to be seen as ambulance chasers. Companies that don't follow etiquette rules in security lose share.

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

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

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.

Honestly, a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

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

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.