Subway Etiquette Quotes

Don't sleep in the subway, darling.

Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.

When I went to prep school in New York City, I had to ride the subway and learned how to do homework on the train. I can work and read through anything.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o'clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, 'What is that?'

You don't look at each other on the subway.

You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.

At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt like that on the New York City subway. The other passengers would take it as a sign of weakness, and there'd be a fight over who got to keep your ears as a trophy.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you.

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.

I do a lot of eavesdropping. That's one of the things I miss about New York: just checking people out.

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.