Quotes About Courtesy

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

There's a certain time that when somebody asks you a question, you answer them. I don't think I said anything with venom. If you can express yourself without anger and make it as palatable as you can, that's what you do.

Jackie smiled graciously and did her part, the noblesse oblige she had talked about. I almost wished she'd been rude to them, since I had to hold the elevator door open for a long minute while she signed one of the briefcases with a Magic Marker. There were distant chimes, indicating that somebody else wanted the elevator, and the door kept thumping me as it tried to close and answer the call.

She will open the conversation with a subject of her choice, to which you can respond appropriately. It is not considered courteous for you to ask her any questions, and you should address her as ma'am, which rhymes with jam, not harm.

When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?

If I had a family crest, it would read Please Don't Make Me Be an Asshole.

All of us are in an ever-escalating arms race for who can be the most considerate.

Every waitress had a group of guys who mistook professional courtesy for a personal relationship. She'd never liked it, but she'd thought she understood it. As far as she could tell, men didn't have close friendships, not like women did, but they still had that human need for connection. Every movie and TV show and magazine article told them it was their job to go out and grab what they wanted at the same time it told them that women were theirs for the taking.

Do not take the advantage of all the little luxuries a house of a stranger may offer you.

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

Golf is a game in which the slowest people in the world are those in front of you, and the fastest are those behind

Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Ms. Connell sighs because wealth does not equate to good manners.

This is the way of air travel: fellow passengers applaud because they didn't die, and then they cut in front of you so they can exit four seconds earlier.

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.

If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.