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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

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

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

There are major CEOs who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don't worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.