"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."

Etiquette, Breeding

42

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."

Exlpore more Etiquette quotes

"Take the initiative with deliberate steps to be a polite person:1. Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze.2. Reciprocate a thoughtful word or a good deed in kind.3. Say "excuse me" when you bump into someone, unintentionally violate someone's space, or need to get someone's attention.4. Apologize when you've made a mistake or are in the wrong.5. Live by the "Golden Rule" and treat others the way you would like to be treated.6. When dining at home or in a restaurant, wait until everyone is served before eating your meal.7. Acknowledge notable events like birthdays, weddings, and anniversaries."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Etiquette, Truth, Power, Life, Inspirational

"Considerations & Exceptions for Impressive Handshakes Be mindful of a person's age; be tender with arthritic hands. In that case, a loose and gentler handshake is a gesture of sensitivity and compassion. Show interest; even if your right hand is full, offer your left hand. Demonstrate respect when you are caught in an introduction while seated; try to stand. Be instinctive about when to allow the length of your handshake to linger to express unity, connection, or sympathy."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Etiquette, Truth, Respect, Wisdom, Power

"Without civilized social graces, not only is life more difficult, but a positive first impression can be destroyed as fast as it is made."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Etiquette, Social, Truth, Happiness, Power

"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

Etiquette, Politeness, Survival, Irony, Humor

"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."

Charles Horton Cooley, American Sociologist

Etiquette, Proof

"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Etiquette, Legacy, Decency, Honor, Obligation

"It is better to be polite than rude."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Etiquette, Politeness, Respect, Rudeness, Manners

"Audiences who behave obscene toward prominent people have no clue that their opinions can result others to have a bad impression on them."

Saaif Alam, Indian Writer

Etiquette, Behavior, Respect, Reputation, Consequence

"You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls."

Margaret Mitchell, American Novelist

Etiquette, Gender, Tradition, Society

"The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness."

Paul Theroux, American Novelist

Etiquette, Manners, Rudeness

Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

Man

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

Humility

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

Hope

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Soul

42

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Etiquette quotes

"Without civilized social graces, not only is life more difficult, but a positive first impression can be destroyed as fast as it is made."

"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."

"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."

"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."

"It is better to be polite than rude."

"Audiences who behave obscene toward prominent people have no clue that their opinions can result others to have a bad impression on them."

"You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls."

"The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness."

Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise."

"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."

"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."