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We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. - Robert Adam What are these wondrous civilizing arts, this Roman polish, and this smooth behavior that render man thus tractable and tame? - Joseph Addison Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady. - George Bryan Brummell (Beau Brummell) There was a general whisper, toss, and wiggle, But etiquette forbade them all to giggle. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) There's nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities. - Douglas William Jerrold Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. - John Ramsay McCulloch Trifles themselves are elegant in him. - Alexander Pope A finished person is a boring person. - Anna Quindlen A man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach, either of real good breeding or good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute points of fashionable etiquette. - Sir Walter Scott O place, O form, How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls To thy false seeming! - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Angelo at II,iii) Etiquette is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance. - Sir Richard Steele
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