Quotes About Courtesy

Solid team relationships (trust, respect, acceptance, courtesy, and mutual accountability) are the glue that holds the team together.

Teammates don't have to be best friends. In fact, the diversity and differences among the individual team members will probably preclude close friendships. However, the relationships must be solid enough to withstand the turbulence of day-to-day interaction, misunderstandings, and an occasional bad day. Solid team relationships provide the climate needed for high levels of cooperation and are characterized by trust, acceptance, respect, understanding, and courtesy.

Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting. "You need to be more careful," he growled. "Keep interfering in my business and you might get hurt." I said sweetly as I continued to Jesse's room, "The last man who swatted me like that is rotting in his grave." "I have no doubt about it." His voice was more satisfied then contrite.

She glanced surreptitiously at Charles, but he was eating the way he usually did—like a well-mannered starving person who wasn't sure where his next meal with coming from.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

As hospitality demanded the invitation, courtesy demanded acceptance

Follow this simple rule to break out of this behavior pattern: don't share your opinion unless asked.

Wallis,' said Maturin, 'I am happy to see you. How is your penis?

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

No one enjoys being talked down to, but I have a particular aversion to it.

Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.

La etiqueta es un puñado de normas que la gente utiliza para poder ser grosera en público con los demás.

For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.

Era como si realizáramos una de esas complicadas danzas cortesanas modeganas en que las parejas se sitúan a escasos centímetros uno del otro, pero (si son buenos bailarines) sin llegar a tocarse. Así llevábamos la conversación, pero no solo nos faltaba el tacto para guiarnos: también parecíamos sordos. De modo que danzábamos con mucho cuidado, sin saber exactamente qué música escuchaba el otro, sin saber siquiera si el otro estaba bailando.

So when I meet a woman, I should simply say, 'You are beautiful?'" Tempi shook his head. "No. You would say simply 'beautiful,' and let the woman decide the rest of what you mean.

Si c'est un valet, annonce un valet. Si c'est un pique, annonce un pique. Mais pour une putain, tu dois toujours dire une « dame ». Leur vie est déjà assez pénible, et la politesse n'a jamais tué personne

my father used to say: "Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

By speaking out of turn you refuse your turn to speak.

was no gentleman.

we both agreed that hereafter we would each make a special effort to treat the other with more courtesy and respect.

If you speak, say little and speak low; don't shout. Truly, this is a most useful saying! — St. Bernardine of Siena,

Politeness is organized indifference.

You don't know what you feel, he said sharply. That's what manners are for--to keep things going when one doesn't know.