Kim Hunter Quotes

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.

The king must never appear in public except when the occasion is extremely important or unavoidable.

You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.

There's always this kind of odd idea that people would say, "Oh, do you know the Queen?" But really people are much smarter than that.

The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.

I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

The audience is a big part of the show.

The meeting with Prince William took place at the White House because Prince William wanted to see where the president spent his days, but the golf course was covered in snow.

Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.

Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.

In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.

George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!

I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

Bow to your sensei. Bow to your sensei!