Quotes About Courtesy

Never rub another mans rhubarb

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

To make a good impression, all you have to do is talk to people, look them in the eye, and show them respect and love.

Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people's thoughts and feelings.

his growing concern with the immorality of our time, the decay of such values as loyalty, courtesy, courage and honor. "Immorality is what is destroying us, public immorality. The failure of man toward men, the selfishness that puts making a buck more important than the common weal.

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. —MARY ANN KELTY,

gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

Fish and Guests in three days are stale.

Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

She held up her hands. "Stop, please. Allow me to hear one shocking sentence at a time.

How can a man know he is one when his highest aim is minding his manners?

It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.

Gant abruptly stood and said, "Thank you for your time, Mr. Koane. I'll see myself out.

Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. It brings the mind into form,—for the mind is like the body.

Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more.

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

Some wanted to know where they could find girls, wanted us to get Negro girls for them. We learned to spot these from the moment they sat down, for they were immediately friendly and treated us with the warmth and courtesy of equals. I mentioned this to Sterling. Yeah, when they want to sin, they're very democratic, he said.

THERE'S NO NEED TO BE CRUDE,' said Owen Meany.

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.           CONFUCIUS

I always made an awkward bow.