#etiquette

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

You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#etiquette #humor #humor

Hey wedding DJ, there is no way in hell I'm paying you $1,000 when all you're doing is plugging your iPod into the sound system #AHOLE ↗

— Andy Ostrom

#dance #dj #etiquette #marriage #wedding

On my way out I didn't look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn't look at him because I didn't believe he was a terrorist, but maybe I didn't look at him because I didn't want to embarrass him. ↗

— Assaf Gavron

#etiquette #human-nature #society #nature

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. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#boys #dating #etiquette #fifteen #humiliation

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

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