Etiquette Quotes - Page 10

I'm completely at ease on a set. I'm pretty comfortable most places, but hitting the mark and knowing set etiquette and understanding cameras and lenses are second nature. It's a language I've spoken for years.

Zoe Bell

Years, Knowing, Understanding

Source: collider.com

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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.

Jim Shepard

Book, Mean, Students

Source: therumpus.net

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England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.

Virginia Graham

Country, Fall, Waiting

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Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

Millicent Fenwick

Roots, People, Principles

Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

Elsa Maxwell

Competition, Intellectual, May

Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”

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You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to deal with, they will stop dealing with you...There are plenty of people who say, 'We don't care about etiquette, but we can't stand the way so-and-so behaves, and we don't want him around!' Etiquette doesn't have the great sanctions that the law has. But the main sanction we do have is in not dealing with these people and isolating them because their behavior is unbearable.

Judith Martin

Law, People, Everyday

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

Emily Post

Food, Cooking, Use

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To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.

Judith Martin

Ignorance, Sacrifice, Compassion

Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Judith Martin

Century

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Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.

David F. Wells

Doe, Different, Might

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In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.

Frederick Lenz

Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

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If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If you are bound by ignorance do not feel bad. You had nothing to do with it.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhist, Ignorance, Buddhism

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People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.

Isaac Marion

Winter, Transition, Lasts

Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

Frederick Lenz

Teacher, Buddhist, Mean

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People say when you're in love, you don't need etiquette. Well, you need it then more than anything. Or they say, "At home I can just be myself." What they mean is they can be their worst selves... They always mean they will save all their anxiety about how to behave for somebody like the head waiter of a restaurant, someone they'll never see again.

Judith Martin

Love You, Home, Mean

"Polite Company". Interview with Hara Estroff Marano, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 1998.

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Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.

Judith Martin

Law, Community, Social Behavior

"Polite Company". Interview with Hara Estroff Marano, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 1998.

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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.

Anton du Beke

Dancing, Once Upon A Time, Levels

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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.

Judith Martin

Children, Ideas, Doe

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As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhist, Buddhism, Validation

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

Tessa Dare

Honor, Code Of Honor, Code

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There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.

Loretta Devine

Needs, Actors, Wrong Person

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When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.” The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Years, Law, Peaceful

"International Men’s Day" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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

Alafair Burke

Wells, Cracked

Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.303, Macmillan

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I do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if they don't say, "Thank you," it pisses me off. I say, "Yes, ma'am," and, "Yes, sir." Stuff that is maybe archaic in a lot of ways, but that's how I was raised, and I don't think there's really any harm in that.

Chris Black

Thinking, Doors, Southern

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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