etiquette Quotes

“How he scolded her! How they argued! She would marry a Prime Minister and stand at the top of a staircase; the perfect hostess he called her (she cried over it in her bedroom), she had the makings of the perfect hostess, he said.”

“It disquieted me at first but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.”

“Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one’s glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one’s nose.”

“those ladies had not come, because those ladies are ladies and cannot come to a lady who is not a lady”