#etiquette

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette. ↗

— Emily Post

#humanity-and-society #relationships #relationship

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. ↗

— Queen Marie of Romania

#etiquette #exists #fashion #people #taste

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. ↗

— Florence King

#bite #conventions #etiquette #matters #merely

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

#compromises #discarded #etiquette #field #find

No, I don't want you to leave. I'm just grabbing your coat and nudging your toward the door for fun #AHOLE ↗

— Andy Ostrom

#cooking #entertaining #etiquette #funny #humor

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#humor #manners #humor

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar. ↗

— Judith Martin

#etiquette #vulgarity #marriage

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#proper-etiquette #death

Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#etiquette #giving-advice #good-manners #life-coaching #life-experience

Generally speaking, it is injudicious for ladies to attempt arguing with gentlemen on political or financial topics. All the information that a woman can possibly acquire or remember on these subjects is so small in comparison with the knowledge of men... ↗

— Samuel Orchar Beeton

#humor #victorian #men