Etiquette Quotes

Etiquette Quotes
Lisbon 2015
Susana de Salazar Casanova

“A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait”.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that
awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use”.
— Emily Post

“Etiquette requires us to admire the human race”.
— Mark Twain

“Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of
education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them”.
— Benjamin Disraeli

“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength”.
— Eric Hoffer

“I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the
principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which
are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different
cultures”.
— Judith Martin

“Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets
of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress,
another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all
people”.
— Lillian Eichler Watson

“Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run
around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened”.
— Stanley Walker

“Manners maketh man”.
— William of Wykeham

“Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they
are regulated by etiquette”.
— Judith Martin

“Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would
seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness”.
— Dorothy Parker

“Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a
book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to
commit some social sin”.
— Quentin Crisp

“It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor”.
– Emily Post

“Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup”.
— Bennett Cerf

“Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were”.
— Author Unknown

“Politeness is the art of choosing among one’s real thoughts”.
— Abel Stevens

“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 the mountain, then
you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably
harmonious communities”.
— Judith Martin

“Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential”.
— Will Cuppy

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our
manners”.
— Laurence Sterne

“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and
manners of the society they live in”.
— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste”.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly
improve his appearance”.
— Arthur Ashe

“Civility is not simply about manners”.
— Jim Leach

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