Quotes About Politeness

A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

Oh, all southern women say they're sorry. You could do almost anything, bump into some one, don't spread the jam right, you're always sorry. I've had people tell me to stop saying it so much!

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Well I'm finding it harder to be a gentleman every day All the manners that I've been taught have slowly died away But if I held the door open for you It wouldn't make your day.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

They spoke politely and with deference to the adults, whereas it went against my nature not to speak plainly. To many people speaking plainly is the same as speaking rudely. Whereas to me, if one was direct, it saved time and misunderstanding.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

If you're not a nice person, don't call.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

Annie, meanwhile, was still trying to twist her mouth into a polite smile. It would take her five minutes to complete the smile, and probably another twenty-four hours to produce an accompanying snappy verbal response.

I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.