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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.