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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume. -- Paul Theroux
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. -- Will Cuppy
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
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. -- Judith Martin
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race. -- Mark Twain
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city. -- George Mason
Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them. -- David Riesman
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. -- Walter Benjamin
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. -- Florence King
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. -- John Ramsay McCulloch
We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility. -- Judith Martin
Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world. -- Judith Martin
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. -- Quentin Crisp
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
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
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness. -- Elsa Maxwell
Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved. -- Emily Post
If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette. -- Judith Martin
Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me? -- Jennifer Estep
Apparently you don't have to observe the Rules of Etiquette when reuniting with a muderous spouse. -- Jennifer Rardin
Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating. -- Russell Baker
Internet Etiquette is a subset of Netiquette for using proper forms of the alphabet, Netiquette Words. NetworkEtiquette.net -- David Chiles
Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business. -- Virginia Cary Hudson
In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment. -- Frederick Lenz
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles. -- Millicent Fenwick
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly your teacher. These are methods that have been handed down for thousands of years. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. -- Marie of Romania
In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature. -- Chip Conley
Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette. -- Judith Martin
A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. -- Judith Martin
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. -- Dorothy Parker
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. -- Stanley Walker
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. -- Robert Adam
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
I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette. -- Mos Def
In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen. -- Virginia Graham
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures. -- Judith Martin
Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more. -- Anton du Beke
Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette. -- Walter Scott
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
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war. -- Stanley Crouch
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.' -- Emma McLaughlin
Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency. -- Christopher Hitchens
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
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. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. -- David Rakoff
One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work. -- Judith Martin
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. -- Julia Glass
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
You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed. -- Christopher Hitchens
When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day. -- Bruce Forsyth
Survival has its own etiquette. -- Janet Morris
Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady. -- Beau Brummell
Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account. -- Judith Martin
Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette. -- Vera Farmiga
The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom. -- Gary Snyder
To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette. -- Robert Breault
passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette. -- Nayantara Sahgal
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use. -- Emily Post
Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette. -- Emily Post
The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China. -- Mason Cooley
Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that. -- Judith Martin
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. -- Bobby Jones
There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks. -- Judith Martin
So there's an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer's code of honor. Is this what you're telling me? -- Tessa Dare
The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors. -- Elsa Maxwell
Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason. -- Melanie Benjamin
Honestly, a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel. -- Roseanne Barr
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot. -- Jim Harrison
"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette. -- Emily Post
There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing. -- Angela Lansbury
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. -- George Bernard Shaw
A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you. -- Joseph Sobran
The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again? -- Judith Martin
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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. -- Patricia C. Wrede
Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment. -- Archibald Marwizi
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. -- Kenneth Grahame
Spare me the people who ask, 'Have you thought about ... losing weight, hiring an assistant, buying a Pentium, working with an etiquette specialist, coloring your hair? -- Susan RoAne
The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules. -- Bobby Jones
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
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. -- Terry Pratchett
People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them; it gives you a set of rules. -- Judith Martin
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. -- Russell Smith
It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland analogy)-dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers-desire swears by the first circle-"things are changing"-what can possibly go wrong? -- Neil Gaiman
The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe -- Judith Martin
One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them. -- Manish Dayal
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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. -- Zoe Bell
When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is disconnected from our physical awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody. -- Angela Lansbury
Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking. -- M. E. W. Sherwood

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