Trifles themselves are elegant in him. [ Pope ]

There's nothing in the world like etiquette
In kingly chambers, or imperial halls,
As also at the race and county balls. [ Byron ]

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

There was a general whisper, toss, and wiggle,
But etiquette forbade them all to giggle. [ Byron ]

Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady. [ Brummel ]

Etiquette is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance. [ Steele ]

O form! how oft dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming! [ William Shakespeare ]

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. [ J. R. MacCulloch ]

What are these wondrous civilizing arts, this Roman polish, and this smooth behavior that render man thus tractable and tame? [ Addison ]

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette: it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. [ Robert Adam ]

A man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach, either of real good breeding or good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute points of fashionable etiquette. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]