Quotes About Consideration

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

When you're talking, Steve," Jock MacKenzie had told him once, "and I don't care who it's to or what it's about, the important thing is knowing when to stop. Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

But Rose? While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to brake his heart too much when the time comes.

While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes.

With a start, I realized I'd begun to frown. I tried to relax my face. Unbidden, Adrian's words had come back to me, that the next time I was in bed with Dimitri, I should think about others who weren't so lucky. "Do you think I ruin lives?" I asked.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

A significant moment deserves a considered prelude. Be ready.

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'...and the other twenty percent isn't very important.

Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom.

When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.

The fact that Ben retained Cavendish shows how seriously he took the matter; you don't hunt rabbits with an elephant gun.

Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom . . . and the other twenty percent isn't very important.

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. N.B.: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

Don't anybody mention ice skating; Grandmaw is too old and frail and it wouldn't be polite. Hilda, you suggest dominoes and we'll all chime in—Grandmaw likes dominoes. We'll go skating some other time. Okay, kids?" Jubal

A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You butt into other people's business.

A present should show that you considered that person's tastes. Something he would enjoy but probably would not buy.

am inhibited in expressing myself by the presence of a lady; therefore I cannot adequately discuss your ancestry, personal habits, morals, and destination.

but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Perhaps you will want time to digest what we've discussed," she

Then why don't you get married?" "I'm not sure. Mostly it's a question of how we'd affect each other, I suppose. Would