Quotes about Etiquette
I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.
— Lewis Carroll
Relating personal problems to associates and customers. Your personal problems are important to you—and only you. Everyone has their share and they don't want to hear about yours.
— Napoleon Hill
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
— Thomas Jefferson
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
— George Bernard Shaw
In Chile it is bad manners to acknowledge that you're overly satisfied, because that can irritate the less fortunate, which is why for us the correct answer to the question "How are you?" is "So-so." That is an opening for sympathizing with the other speaker's situation.
— Isabel Allende
The national sport is to talk about the person who just left the room. In this, too, we are different from our idols, the English, whose principles forbid them from making personal remarks.
— Isabel Allende
If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.
— Anonymous
A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
— Anonymous
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
— Oscar Wilde
If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.
— Peter Drucker
Take time to be Courteous. Courtesy lightens the burdens of toil. Courtesy demands respect. Courtesy is a little brother to Opportunity and follows her around through the hours of the busy day. Courtesy always leads a man higher up.
— Napoleon Hill
You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.
— Toni Morrison