Quote by Samuel Roberts Wells

“Please do not bring female visitors of the opposite sex into rooms.”

— Rohinton Mistry

“I should like balls infinitely better,' she replied, 'if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in…

— Jane Austen

“His manner invited easy confidence. The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging…

— Kate Chopin

“Ladies should also remember that gentlemen look more to the effect of a dress in setting off the figure and countenance of a lady…

— Thomas Hillgrove

“Clearly in textbook terms, the gentleman should text the lady first after intercourse, but perhaps the whole socio-etiquettical system breaks down when an insect…

— Helen Fielding

“Like in a graceful dance, in their interactions, there had never been any stifling, awkward, or rough movements—just light, fleeting touches.”

— Torres and Firsht

“It was only later that I realised that I had experienced extended close contact with another human without feeling uncomfortable. I attributed it to…

— Graeme Simsion

“In the waiting room, ladies in a picturesque group surrounded a table with magazines. They stood, sat, or half reclined in the poses they…

— Boris Pasternak

“Those dances that require or permit the close embrace and suggestive movements . . . ought to be utterly prohibited.”

— Joseph F. Smith

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“that is how an uninvited guest makes a stir on arriving at a ball. Underdress, and everyone else’s finery looks ridiculous.”

— Jane Davis

“What are you looking for?” she asked abruptly. “It’s rather rude for a gentleman to enter a lady’s room without permission.” “I’m not a…

— Elizabeth Hoyt