Quotes About Courtesy

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

Where I'm from, there's two things you don't mess with. You don't mess with a man's woman, or his hat DON'T TOUCH A MAN'S HAT!

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Beware of a man with manners.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

I don't hold doors for women. I'm not sure I really differentiate between men and women, in my door-related activities. Do women really care about this issue?

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

My mom is the No. 1 person who has taught me to be courteous towards women, to always be respectful and polite to them, and to always lead with your heart.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Dressing well is a form of good manners.