Etiquette Quotes

“Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.”

— Amit Kalantri

Survival has its own etiquette.

— Janet Morris

“You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET.”

— Germany Kent

In beauty school, you learn etiquette.

— Didi Conn

Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.

— Frederick Lenz

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

— Mark Twain

Don't preach about meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.

— Beau Brummell

“Being early meant being on time. Being on time meant being late. But being late was unacceptable.”

— L.C. Perry

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

— Emily Post

“Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“It is good netiquette to use the internet for online education. Learn new things.”

— David Chiles

“Giving posts a second look makes them twice as good. It's good netiquette.

— David Chiles

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

— Phoebe Dynevor

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial…

— Quentin Crisp

Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse…

— Frederick Lenz

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of…

— Frederick Lenz

“Interview etiquette is now on center stage in corporate America. Dress, image, and personal presentation are undergoing greater scrutiny than ever before.”

— Robin Ryan

What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works…

— Frederick Lenz

Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the…

— Frederick Lenz

How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

— Frederick Lenz

“Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has…

— Brené Brown

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner…

— Emily Post

China is exciting because it is an extremely curious and interested market. What more can a designer ask for? The client here…

— Michael Kors

I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular…

— Judith Martin

I think that there's etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don't think you…

— Debra Messing

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this…

— David Rakoff

Social etiquette dictates that when in mixed company, one should avoid discussing politics and religion. As someone who is quite active on…

— Gad Saad

I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the…

— Robert Benchley

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will…

— Agnes Repplier

I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once…

— Fred Rodell

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For the company to assemble at a late hour and engage in unusual, exciting and severe exercise throughout the entire night, is…

— Alice Simpson

“ Redneck Rules of Etiquette • To avoid bruising wine as you decant it, make sure to tilt the paper cup. •…

— Deborah Ford

I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured…

— Jane Lindskold

Miss Temminnick, you are in receipt of the highest marks we have ever given in a six-month review. Your mind seems designed…

— Gail Carriger

“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought…

— Thomas Mann