Etiquette Quotes - Page 4

• I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

  Judith Martin

  Principles, Different, Culture

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• Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Thinking, People, Listening

  Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”

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

  Chip Conley

  Rebel

  "The Five Fundamentals of Management Etiquette" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Sorry, Thinking, Important

  "Didn't he do well?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2004.

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

  Vera Farmiga

  Issues, Breastfeeding, Vaccinations

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Judith Martin

  Women, Giving, Information

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• The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Consciousness, Intensity

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• People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Self

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• When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Odds, Waiting

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Collector's Library

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

  Ursula Parrott

  Mean, Speech, Civilized

  Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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• There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense. With that attitude, you won't get it. The teacher sees that attitude and will have very little to do with you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Attitude

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• Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

  Emily Post

  Presumption, Contrary

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• There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.

  Helen DeWitt

  Nice, Believe, Love Life

  Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.136, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Belief, Opinion, Manners

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)”, p.87, Random House

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

  Melanie Benjamin

  Age, Reason, Clothings

  Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.118, Delacorte Press

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• 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.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sympathy, Sorry, Grandmother

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1137, Penguin

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• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Sweet, Clever

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

  Jennifer Estep

  Trying, Kind, Murder

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.454, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• 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.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Winter, Animal, Heroic

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.76

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• Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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• What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Discovery

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• Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Excellence

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