#etiquette

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. ↗

— Stephen King

#norms #politeness #reading #society #writing

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#artist #etiquette #every #into #learn

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not. ↗

— Marc Almond

#business #certain #done #etiquette #go

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#behaving #better #essential #etiquette #little

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

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#book #etiquette #slim #very #volume

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#celebrate #doing #etiquette #film #having

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

A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#humor #manners #humor