Etiquette Quotes

No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

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

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

Survival has its own etiquette.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.

So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?

Spare me the people who ask, 'Have you thought about ... losing weight, hiring an assistant, buying a Pentium, working with an etiquette specialist, coloring your hair?

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

Honestly, a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel.

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.

People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them; it gives you a set of rules.

There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.

The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it.

Apparently you don't have to observe the Rules of Etiquette when reuniting with a muderous spouse.

Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?

If you respect it in others, you respect it in yourself.

The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.

There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.

God gave you a gift of 84, 600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

Have you shat, my child, I said gently.

It is proper ‪‎Netiquette‬ to tell readers your joking literally or with a ‪smiley‬ face. NetworkEtiquette.net

The internet changed the world with data. Netiquette is making it a better place with information. NetworkEtiquette.net

The internet makes every online action memorable. Practice proper Netiquette for good memories. NetworkEtiquette.net

It is proper ‎Netiquette to watch television online via native ‎app when using ‪mobile.

Good updates are nice, as a matter of netiquette. Bad ones are negative. NetworkEtiquette.net

Giving posts a second look makes them twice as good. It's good netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

Use Discretion: It is proper netiquette to use discretion, best behavior, in all online activity. NetworkEtiquette.net

You are what you post. Proper netiquette makes you a good user. NetworkEtiquette.net

It is proper netiquette to refrain from asking others online about things that make them uncomfortable. NetworkEtiquette.net

Please, do not take the internet literally because it is data. Life happens. Thank you. Netiquette NetworkEtiquette.net

The best opportunities to be nice to others come in the face of adversity. Kindness wins. Reciprocity rules. NetworkEtiquette.net

It is good netiquette to use the internet for online education. Learn new things. NetworkEtiquette.net

Doing the right thing irl (in real life) or online is good netiquette, but it is not always easy. NetworkEtiquette.net

It is never to late to practice proper Netiquette. Start today. Be nice! NetworkEtiquette.net