plooptionary

A weekly ploop themed series – cracking quotes you wish you’d coined yourself! Apologies for a little too much Oscar Wilde but the guy was so prolifically gifted …

Quotes on behaviour and etiquette

“Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous.  You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing”

P.J. O’Rourke

“Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself!

Oscar Wilde in ‘A Woman of No importance’

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without asking any clear question”

Albert Camus

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them”

P.G. Wodehouse  

“Manners are especially the need of the plain.  The pretty can get away with anything”

Evelyn Waugh

“Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it”

Osbert Lancaster

“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them”

E.V. Lucas

“I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill-breeding”

William Congreve

“Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste, and style all mixed together so that you don’t need any of those things!

P.J. O’Rourke

Good eh?

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