Etiquette Quotes

Stephen King

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.

Kathy Griffin

I was raised right - I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

Neil Gaiman

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Let us work towards not only bringing civility back in style, but ultimately making it a lifestyle.

Cindy Ann Peterson

We are more advanced technologically than ever before. However, technology, in many respects, is leading to the decline of conversation.

Susanna Clarke

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.

Amit Kalantri

Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.

A.O. Storm

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

A.O. Storm

Ticketmaster saying that their fee is a "convenience" is like a rapist calling his raping a "favor

Judith Martin

We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.

Maralee McKee

OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us.

Maralee McKee

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

David Chiles

The price of freedom is teamwork" from forthcoming, Internet Etiquette: Netiquette Principles, Practice, and Power NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. NetworkEtiquette.net

Judith Martin

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

Assaf Gavron

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.

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