Ask you to please excuse my table manners, I was making room for the table dancers. — Drake Copy Share Image
“Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. — George Mikes 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 am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“A very, terribly long time ago, before such things as television and good table manners or even children, ferocious monsters roamed a… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
“Domenico had that ‘look-at-me I’ve-got-money’ attitude about him. A proper nouveau riche . In combination with his pig-like table manners at home,… — K.A. Merikan 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
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 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
“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
“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
“Vijaya prefers to eat alone. Rob ushered her into the room and held a chair for her, then sat across from her.… — Patricia Frances Rowell Copy Share Image
I believe very firmly that dash cams and body cams should be instituted for every single police officer in this country. Admit… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“It was our understanding that we were to be instructing them in the ways of the civilized world, not being made beasts… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“The smaller the dinner table, the better the side conversation: you can gossip about the guests without fearing whether you will be… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
To use bad taste, you have to know the rules of good taste. I've always thanked my mother for that. She taught… — John Waters 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
“My grandmother’s unkindness, for instance, was the result of repressed grief over three deaths: her parents, before she was twelve, and her… — Nancy Cobb 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
What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time,… — Georges Perec 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
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
“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 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
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
“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’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
“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
“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
“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
Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
