Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly.

So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do.

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

Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.

Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

There are generations of people who don't know how to eat properly.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

I remember so clearly from when I was five years old, my mom and dad arguing over - not over whether it was better, but whether it was proper or whether it was correct to eat with a fork or to eat with your hands, like we do in Sri Lanka. Proper. Like, what is the correct way to eat?

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

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

To use bad taste, you have to know the rules of good taste. I've always thanked my mother for that. She taught how to eat with proper table manners and all that stuff, to the point of rebellion. But I couldn't have rebelled from it if I didn't know it.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.

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.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

Hunter Pence eats pizza with a fork.