Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“ Reminder: good table manners are the ultimate symbol of who you are, and how you were raised. ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. — Bill Kelly Copy Share Image
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
“it was a point of good manners not to sit with a clique of the same friends all the time, and it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We had a lot to learn. Table manners and grace, how to wait your turn? When time came to clear your slate.… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
“Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm a child of the 50s. I was expected to have table manners. There needs to be some expectations for behavior. I'm… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“The next day it's Virginia Woolf who wafts through. Hers is a curiously insistent presence; take your eyes off her for a… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Fetch me the money box and some punkwood, will you, my boy?" Gannon asked him, licking the honey from his plate. (I… — William D. Burt Copy Share Image
“When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that's because I don't eat at a table, I… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
“This is the problem with even lesser demons. They come to your doorstep in velvet coats and polished shoes. They tip their… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs,… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
“You go to Hawaii alone, buy the way?" "Who goes to Hawaii alone? I went with a girl. She's only thirteen, though."… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“I have known numbers of bourgeois Socialists. I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Mary tucked into a ball, shielding herself from the tail's barbs. She covered her ears and closed her eyes, cutting off the… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“bay-takalufi.’” He sat up straight and raised his hand like a schoolboy. “I do know that one. It’s informality as an expression… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Midwest childhood, a kidney condition that kept him out of the service, a stint at the Navy Yard before the job at… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Yes, perfection. it rests its full weight upon the core of the poor aunt's being, like a corpse sealed inside a glacier-a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In my view, the West is not a concept to be explored, analyzed, or enlarged through a study of the history and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“And it was funny. The silence of him had a bizarre effect on her. Normally, she was the quiet one in situations,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“I’m an old man trying to give a young daughter advice, and it’s like a monkey trying to teach table manners to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was my mother, my frequent co-conspirator in the kitchen and my conduit to our past, who suggested the means to convey… — Anya von Bremzen Copy Share Image
“Eat slowly," the blueblood said. "Don't cut your food with the fork. Cut it with the knife, and make the pieces small… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
“Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
