Ettiquette Quotes

“I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.'
'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.'
'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?'
'Because that's rude,' Jess explains.
'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“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.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail

“Courtesy, is a constant repitition of reflecting established virtues.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“I have attended weddings, with chipped nail paints.
I have worn same blue denim for days in a row.
I have not followed etiquette sometimes, I was too happy to bother.
I have picked up fights, ugly ones too.
I have been notorious because I stood up for myself.
I have flaws. I am flawed.
But I have come to realize,
It’s okay to life a life others don’t understand.
My life should be my LIBERATION,
Not anyone’s REGULATION.”
― Jasleen Kaur Gumber

“Curiously, among the few survivors from this culinary onslaught is one that is most difficult to understand: the fish knife. Though it remains the standard instrument for dealing with fish of all kinds, no one has ever identified a single advantage conferred by its odd scalloped shape or worked out the original thinking behind it. There isn't a single kind of fish that it cuts better or bones more delicately than a conventional knife does.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“Control thy lingo and mind thy demeanor in synonymy with the social etiquette,”
― Mukesh Kwatra

“He did not kiss her, for the hour was half-past twelve, and the car was passing by the stables of Buckingham Palace.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“The Goddess ethos is: living for love, light, and legacy.”
― Emma Mildon, Evolution of Goddess: A Modern Girl's Guide to Activating Your Feminine Superpowers

“Bedtime tales, myths, legends, fairy tales, lie the lessons and examples of what a Goddess would do.”
― Emma Mildon, Evolution of Goddess: A Modern Girl's Guide to Activating Your Feminine Superpowers

“The people who are best at any job have their own way of doing things.”
― Miss Manners

“People who don't have values
Show their beauty
Who don't have beauty
Show their shame”
― Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh

“Miss Manners has always believed that people who do not acknowledge presents are annoyed at receiving them, and she respects that preference.”
― Judith Martin

“Døving (2001), has similarly shown, in a study based on fieldwork in south-eastern Norway, that it may be extraordinarily impolite to ask for ‘just a glass of water’ when one is visiting. In his example, the hosts do everything they can to make the guest accept beer, a soft drink, coffee, tea, even herbal tea, to avoid the horror of having her sit there drinking tap water. As Mauss could have commented; refusing to receive a gift may be the ultimate offence. It is tantamount to refusing sociality.”
― Thomas Hylland Eriksen, What Is Anthropology?