Code Quote by Elsa Maxwell

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

— John Ramsay McCulloch

“As one learns more and more about the networks of protocological control, it becomes almost second nature to project protocol into every physical system:…

— Alexander Galloway

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

— Frederick Lenz

I am not accustomed to protocol.

— Evo Morales

“Communication depends on the basic convention that participants are cooperating with one another and that, therefore, what one person says to the other is…

— Jonathan Culler

“Why is etiquette important?” “Because it maintains civility, making it possible for people from different worlds to interact with a minimum of unnecessary conflict.”

— Scott Meyer

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less…

— Erving Goffman

“A discreet person . . . • is strong, yet humble; • expresses genuine concern and interest; • exercises caution to avoid unnecessary risks;…

— Susan C. Young

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

— Freya Stark

Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

— Mario Bunge

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our…

— Henri Rousseau

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

— Judith Martin