In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue.
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.
A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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.
The field of asking is fundamentally improvisational. It thrives not in the creation of rules and etiquette but in the smashing of that etiquette. Which is to say: there are no rules. Or, rather, there are plenty of rules, but they ask, on bended kne...
The man who takes up nothing but a newspaper, but reads it to think, to deduct conclusions from its premises, and form a judgment on its opinions, is more fitted for society than he, who having all the current literature and devoting his whole time t...
Never invite someone who is speaking a foreign language in your presence to "Go back to your country." The only time that phrase is every acceptable is if you are British and you are speaking to Madonna.
In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
Follow your Netiquette. Practice proper internet etiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net
Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
Don’t let “reality” make you lose faith in God and gain faith in Man. Don’t put your Joy in man because when man leaves, there goes your Joy. The world didn’t give you your joy and the world can’t take it away. Your value isn’t in the h...
Control thy lingo and mind thy demeanor in synonymy with the social etiquette,
Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution. NetworkEtiquette.net
Internet Etiquette is a subset of Netiquette for using proper forms of the alphabet, Netiquette Words. NetworkEtiquette.net
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.
