"Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace."
~ Judith Martin

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."
~ Jesse Jackson

"Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. "
~ Maurice Baring

"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
~ Bennett Cerf

"Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home."
~ J.S. Farynski

"Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note."
~ Bernie Brillstein

"Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident."
~P.J. O'Rourke

"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork"
~Oscar Wilde

"Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential."
~Will Cuppy

"Etiquette requires us to admire the human race."
~Mark Twain

"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people."
~Lillian Eichler Watson

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
~Emily Post

"A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable."
~Judith Martin

"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

"Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat."
~Robert A. Heinlein

"A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol."
~Adlai E. Stevenson

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong."
~Thomas Jefferson

"It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it."
~Mae West

"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. "
~Meryl Streep

"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
~Bette Davis