Quotes About Courtesy

We don't like offending anyone.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

You might see Al Pacino at the grocers, but you would never go up to him and say, 'Oh my God, you're Al Pacino.'

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

I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.

When going out on a date, I think there are certain old-fashioned manners that I still enjoy. I don't mean that as an anti-feminist comment. I just mean it as a pro-women comment. There must be a place for us to exist and our differences to exist without one taking away from the other.

I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me.

I'm kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers... Or doesn't answer.

Nothing makes me want to scream louder than oldies doddering on to a train at a slow shuffle when the rest of us are just trying to get on with our day.

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.

I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

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

Manners before morals!

dont be an ass-hat!!

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

Well, everybody seems to be doing it, I said, so I suppose I had better make the thing unanimous. Here's a fiver. Why, thank you, sir. This is extremely - It won't seem much compared with these vast sums you've been acquiring. Oh, I assure you, sir. And I don't know why I'm giving it to you. No, sir. Still, there it is. Thank you very much, sir.

By the way, one generally shakes hands in the smartest circles. Yours seem to be down there somewhere. Might I trouble you? Right. Got it? Thanks!

Promptitude—Courtesy—Intelligence

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable." Master

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady, he remarked on suitable occasion. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.