Enkele quotes over etiquette. Wat is jullie favoriet?
Etiquette is essentially how we do what we do. (Etiquette Guy)
Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. (Emily Post)
The principles of etiquette are all based on common sense, something severely lacking in today’s irreverent world. (EG)
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. (Will Cuppy)
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. (Emily Post)
No matter how well you know the rules of etiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn’t. (Don Rittner)
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. (Clarence Thomas)
Manners make the man. (William of Wykeham)
Etiquette is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance. (Sir Richard Steele)
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. (Colette)
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. (John Ramsay McCulloch)
Stars makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady. (George Bryan Brummell)
There was a general whisper, toss, and wiggle, But etiquette forbade them all to giggle. (Lord Byron)
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. (Dorothy Parker)
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. (Robert Adam)
A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. (Judith Martin)
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. (Stanley Walker)