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Tag Name "Etiquette" (73)

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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Will Cuppy
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Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
Elsa Maxwell
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Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.
Emily Post
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Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.
Russell Baker
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Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.
Virginia Cary Hudson
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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
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Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.
David Riesman
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Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
Douglas William Jerrold
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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
Mark Twain
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Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?
Jennifer Estep
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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
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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
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Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.
Vera Farmiga
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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
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Walter Benjamin
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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
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The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.
Judith Martin
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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
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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
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In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.
Chip Conley
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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
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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
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There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.
Loretta Devine
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No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.
Don Rittner
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