(55 quotes found)
“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde”
Oscar Wilde
“Etiquette requires us to admire the human race”
Mark Twain
“Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.”
Dorothy Parker
“By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field”
“Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.”
Emily Post
“Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.”
Will Cuppy
“The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume”
Paul Theroux
“In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.”
Virginia Graham
“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
