Emily Post Quotes

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them; it gives you a set of rules.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

You should respect the people you are around.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I believe when a woman enters a room, men should stand up - and gay men should stand up at least halfway.

Society becomes how you behave.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner table, and walking down the street--we are confronted with choices on how to treat people nearly every waking moment. Over time these choices define who we are and whether we have a lot of friends and allies or none.

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.