Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.

Never try to get into society, so-called. Those who try seldom get in, and if they do edge through the portals they always feel clammy and unworthy when under the scrutiny of the elect. Sit outside and appear indifferent, and after a while they may sent for you. If not, it will be money in your pocket.

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.

I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.

Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

He’s on our side and that’s all that matters. Besides, one needn’t ask him to one’s club.

I know places you better speak low if you've been to college. Men will come across the room and cold-deck you if you hold your glass wrong.

Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles.

We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.

I'm not clique-y.

I tried to play the etiquette game - the respect game - for too long, and it didn't work out for me.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

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.

I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.