Quotes About Politeness

That was my upbringing: you treat people with respect.

If a woman likes another woman she's cordial. If she doesn't like her she's very cordial.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly on the work that's ahead of us [with Tom Hardey].

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still alive, I would congratulate her.

you've crossed a psychological boundary by establishing yourself to the asker as someone who is interested in the type of request being made. Research shows we're remarkably committed to maintaining a consistent sense of external identity, even if we only established it to begin with out of politeness.

BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice...

a scene in which Bruno talks to his prostitute girlfriend about life in America (under the Nazis, Bruno says, they beat you and cursed you, but in America, "They do it ever so politely, and with a smile")

I don't want to offend people.

I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.

I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.

Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.

Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

Manners before morals!

Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe ignored the eyebrows. ... Mr Beach's eyebrows were still mutely urging him to reveal all, but Ashe directed his gaze at that portion of the room which Mr Beach did not fill. He was hanged if he was going to let himself be hypnotized by a pair of eyebrows into incriminating himself.

The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

One more toot--just one single, solitary suggestion of the faintest shadow or suspicion of anything remotely approaching a toot--and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.

Won't you have an egg or something? Or a sausage or something? Or something?' 'No, thank you.' She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage society or a league for the suppression of eggs. .. There was another slightly frappe silence.

He coughed again, that deferential cough of his which sounds like a well-bred sheep clearing its throat on a distant mountain-top.