Etiquette Quote by Elsa Maxwell Download Open image “Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.” — Elsa Maxwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Etiquette Fancy Kindness Simple Simple Kindness
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The elegance of etiquette is a timeless expression of class which transcends social status, demographics, educational level, and ethnicity. Good manners say more about… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business. — Virginia Cary Hudson Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly your teacher.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high -… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works hard at… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it,… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.” — John Patrick Hickey Copy Share Image
Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor to liberate,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
