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prasanna
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 Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:55 pm |
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Etiquette quotes
“Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.”
Dorothy Parker (American short-story Writer and Poet, 1893-1967)
“Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.”
Quentin Crisp (English Author, 1908-1999)
“A rule of etiquette is only a rule if it can be meaningfully broken”
“The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume”
Paul Theroux (American travel Writer and Novelist, b.1941)
“Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.”
Will Cuppy
“Etiquette requires us to admire the human race”
Mark Twain(American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
“Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.”
George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
“The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe”
Judith S. Marin
“By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field”
Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
“Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account”
Judith S. Marin
“He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.”
Walter Benjamin (German Theologian, Writer and Essayist. 1892-1940)
“If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette”
Judith S. Marin
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“Rarely does anyone speak of fear for his own life, as if an unspoken etiquette prevails.”
Jane Gross
“The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.”
Brooks Atkinson (American Journalist and Critic, 1894-1984)
“I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.”
Amy Vanderbilt (American Journalist and Author, an acknowledged authority on manners and etiquette. 1908-1974)
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