The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.
Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.
Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.
Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.
Honestly, a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel.
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.
If you respect it in others, you respect it in yourself.
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.
Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to deal with, they will stop dealing with you. . . There are plenty of people who say, 'We don't care about etiquette, but we can't stand the way so-and-so behaves, and we don't want him around!' Etiquette doesn't have the great sanctions that the law has. But the main sanction we do have is in not dealing with these people and isolating them because their behavior is unbearable.
Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.
Apparently you don't have to observe the Rules of Etiquette when reuniting with a muderous spouse.
