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Etiquette
Manners are a sensitive awareness
of the feelings of others. If you have
that awareness, you have good manners,
no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
The world was my oyster
but I used the wrong fork
Oscar Wilde
The high point of civilization is that
you can hate me and I can hate you
but we develop an etiquette that allow
s us to deal with each other because
if we acted solely upon our impulse
we'd probably go to war.
Stanley Crouch
Etiquette requires us to
admire the human race.
Mark Twain
Etiquette means behaving
yourself a little better than
is absolutely essential.
Will Cuppy
A general rule of etiquette is that
one apologizes for the unfortunate
occurrence, but the unthinkable
is unmentionable.
Judith Martin
Good manners will
open doors that the
best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
Those who have mastered etiquette,
who are entirely, impeccably right,
would seem to arrive at a point
of exquisite dullness.
Dorothy Parker
A commercial society whose members are
essentially ascetic and indifferent in social
ritual has to be provided with blueprints
and specifications for evoking the
right tone for every occasion.
Mcluhan, Marshall
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette.
I try to find out what the most genteel
people regularly do, what traditions
they have discarded, what compromises
they have made.
Amy Vanderbilt
The pejorative term 'political correctness'
was adapted to express disapproval of the
enlargement of etiquette to cover all people,
in spite of this being a principle to which
all Americans claim to subscribe
Judith S. Marin
