Quotes About Politeness

Servants must be treated with the utmost courtesy. They are doing skilled work which you could not possibly do yourself without long training. And remember they cannot answer back. You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you. If you are impolite, they will despise you, and rightly, because you have not acted like a lady.

I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject.

At first, I was polite. Really. I said "excuse me," I tried to squeeze through gaps, even apologized for stepping on some toes. What can I say, I'm Canadian.

dangerously polite.

His manner, as always, was incurious - almost lazy. He asked the question, it seemed, more from politeness than because he had any desire for the information. It was a manner particularly soothing to Mary Aldin. She wanted badly to talk to someone - but she much preferred to talk to someone who was not too much interested.

Does anyone—want tea?

I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.'

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Britons are very respectful - if they want to take a photo, they ask politely.

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.

Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.

The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only polite thing she could do. She rolled her eyes back in her head, exhaled a loud gasp and swooned out of her chair.

Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.

I just have to work on the apologetic side because I'm Canadian. We apologize for everything.

You don't talk about celebrities in the Hamptons, duh!

Civility is a choice.

There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

My mom is the kind of mom, when we would go to a friend of the family's house, and they would offer us something to drink or offer us something to eat, my mother would always say, 'Tell them no.' You could be starving - you could be dehydrated - but as kids, we were supposed to tell the host, 'No.'

Do I have to be polite?" I asked. "Or can I just be natural?

He is the very pineapple of politeness!