Top 173 Etiquette Quotes & Sayings

So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?

To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette.

Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?

passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette.

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.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

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.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

There's a big etiquette thing with wrestling, but every day you come in, you shake everybody's hand, you introduce yourself, you say hello.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

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.

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.

You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to deal with, they will stop dealing with you...There are plenty of people who say, 'We don't care about etiquette, but we can't stand the way so-and-so behaves, and we don't want him around!' Etiquette doesn't have the great sanctions that the law has. But the main sanction we do have is in not dealing with these people and isolating them because their behavior is unbearable.

The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.

To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

I think the problem today is that there is no social etiquette.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

Apparently you don't have to observe the Rules of Etiquette when reuniting with a muderous spouse.

It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.

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

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

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.

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

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

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.

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.

Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.

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.

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.

There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

In beauty school, you learn etiquette.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

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

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

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

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.

Survival has its own etiquette.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

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

I didn't get etiquette classes, which is a shame because someone like me needs them.