Quotes with etiquette

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  • Will Cuppy Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
    Will Cuppy
    American humorist and critic (1884 - 1949)
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Walter Benjamin He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Amy Vanderbilt 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 author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • Quentin Crisp 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 writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Brooks Atkinson 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 theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Dorothy Parker Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Bruce Forsyth When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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