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Quotes About Courtesy

Punctuality is the politeness of princes'?
~ Leslie Charteris
Quentin looked at Plum. "After you," she said. "Ladies first." "Age before beauty." "P's before Q's.
~ Lev Grossman
Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
~ Lewis Carroll
It isn't etiquette to cut anyone you've been introduced to. Remove the joint!
~ Lewis Carroll
Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner conversation with people who matter to you? You can't wait five minutes before staring at your phone?
~ Martin Cooper
I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
Treating everyone with dignity and respect is of utmost importance to me and are values we instill and take very seriously at Mylan.
~ Heather Bresch
I approach this game with the utmost respect for every player.
~ Marcus Morris
I can not express more the importance of treating your teammates, opponents and coaches with the utmost respect.
~ Shaun Livingston
It may be vain to care too much how you look, but it is impolite to care too little. You do a generous thing for the world when you present yourself properly.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.
~ Mariska Hargitay
You don't have to like a man to respect him.
~ Janny Wurts
If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
~ Jasper Fforde
Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners ...
~ Jasper Fforde
6.6.19.61.247: Vulgar mispronunciations of everyday words will not be tolerated.
~ Jasper Fforde
Il était comme ces moines qui sont obligés de faire effort pour s'arracher d'où ils sont et venir où vous êtes; imiter les rires et les mots auxquels vous êtes habitués; avoir la politesse ou le mépris de ne pas trop vous surprendre.
~ Jean Giono
La patronne était là, j'ai dû la baiser, mais c'était bien par politesse.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
People who treat waitresses or waiters rudely - or taxi drivers - I have very little tolerance for those people. They work really hard. They deserve courtesy and respect.
~ Chloe Sevigny
I've never given my phone number to someone on the street, but when someone is a gentleman, I appreciate the compliments.
~ Aja Naomi King
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever.
~ Lester Holt
And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.
~ Robert Grosseteste
Every job I've inherited, like 'Strictly's It Takes Two' and the radio show with Zoe Ball or 'Big Brother' with Emma Willis, I'll always ring them first and say, 'Are you OK with me doing it?'
~ Rylan Clark-Neal