Quotes About Courtesy

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.

You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.

In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned;Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

He nodded, sagely, at the lot of us, and yawned; then glanced at the clock. "Out you go!" he said, in friendly fashion, using the recognised formula. "I want a sleep." We rose, shook him by the hand, and went out presently into the night and the quiet of the Embankment; and so to our homes.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

He hit McMaster twice, with the left from fear, with the right from courtesy.

When a man comes up to a woman he doesn't know, he's supposed to say lovely things. Could there ever be a male kamikaze who'd stop a woman and fling at her, "How can you be wearing those shoes? Your toes look like they're in a gulag. It's shameful, you're Stalin when it comes to your feet!" Who would say such a thing? Certainly not François, who'd wisely settled on the complimentary approach.

When you ask someone to pass the salt, you are also giving them an order; by attaching the word "please", you are saying that it is not an order. But, in fact, it is.

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

General Wu was about to say something and then thought better of it. Li walked him down the stairs to his car. As the door opened, Li leaned over and whispered in the general's ear: "I tolerate much from my brother. We are a family. Please don't ever do that again.

Contrary to those pseudo-serious Loud Pipes Save Lives stickers, noise basically annoys people and demonstrates that you are impolite and self-centered.

Don't make jokes about food.

saying "Bonjour, madame" when walking into the boulangerie to pick up your baguette, or beginning a request with "Excusez-moi de vous déranger"—"I'm sorry to bother you"—leading off with an apology, letting a salesclerk or receptionist know that you recognize their importance

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan

It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.

The grace of God is courtesy.

I say God bless you... I don't say bless you... I'm not the Lord. I can't do that...

When someone thanks God, I don't get offended.

Now I don't have anything against Mexican people, but for God's sakes, sign the gust book on the way in.

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.