Social Grace Quotes

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

No matter what time your guests arrive, pretend they're early, so naturally you're not ready.

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.