Table Manners Quotations

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.