Quotes About Courtesy

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

Sir,' she called out. 'Lord Bradford.' He turned. His eyes lit up, seeing Azalea. 'Thank you,' said Azalea. Lord Bradford bowed deeply, removing his hat, which re-rumpled his hair. When he straightened, he was smiling, as crooked as his cravat, and Azalea couldn't help but smile back.

Cierra la puerta cuando salgas de la casa», «Enrolla la esterilla en la que has dormido», «Sé educado», «Sé honrado en tus transacciones», «Devuelve lo que pidas prestado», «Repón lo que rompas», «No te bañes en presencia de mujeres», «No rebusques sin autorización en los bolsillos de tus detenidos».

You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

think two cops sucking hard at Hollywood's tit are in no position to be giving me any shit for offering a courtesy to a studio exec.

Motörhead is nothing if not democratic, but I don't think it's fair to be waving your dick around when people are minding their own business and might not want to see it.

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody's room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity.

How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny.

Calling a person 'sir' can often help you get what you want, unless of course the person is a woman.

I'll tell you why I'm Shirley," Count Olaf said. "I'm Shirley because I would like to be called Shirley, and it is impolite not to do so.

I'm sorry we made you come all the way to our rooms just to take us right down the hall," Charles said. "It's my pleasure," Klaus said. As I'm sure you know, when people say, "It's my pleasure," they usually mean something along the lines of, "There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less

If it weren't for girls, being a gentleman would be super-duper easy.

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

In the final round of the game, if your company has admitted women to the play, I do not recommend that you vote for your paramour, or for the member of the company who has taken your fancy. In my experience it rarely leads to success; and your fellows will notice and make fun of your noble gesture for weeks.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

I am worn out with civility.

Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by the courtesy of her hearers, an explanation;

You might not see one in a hundred with gentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightley.

But you must give my compliments to him. Yes — I think it must be compliments. Is not there a something wanted, Miss Price, in our language — a something between compliments and — and love — to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together? — So many months acquaintance! — But compliments may be sufficient here.