Irwin Corey Quotes

Protocol is everything.

I am not accustomed to protocol.

While speaking in the NA, one must maintain respect.

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

Be polite. Write diplomatically. Even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

We must not confuse protocol with principle.

The etiquette question has become of so much importance as to be an object of state.

It's very important to understand how to act in any situation.

Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look,word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.

It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen." It is a lack of good manners.

"Sorry," she said, "I got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know." "Explain protocol," Nell said. This was how she always talked to the Primer. "At the place we’re going, you need to watch your manners. Don’t say 'explain this' or 'explain that.'" "Would it impose on your time unduly to provide me with a concise explanation of the term protocol?" Nell said. Again Rita made that nervous laugh and looked at Nell with an expression that looked like poorly concealed alarm.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.

There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

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.