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Quotes About Courtesy

God Said: Let there be light! I said: Say please.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
~ Clarence Thomas
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.
~ Usain Bolt
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
~ Mark Twain
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.
~ Peter Mayle
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
~ Amy Vanderbilt
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.
~ Emily Post
Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
~ Cato the Younger
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
~ Wendell Willkie
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
~ Bennett Cerf
Tact is good taste in action.
~ Diane de Poitiers
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
~ Bryant H. McGill
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
~ Helen Mirren
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.
~ Catharine Beecher
I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.
~ David Ogilvy
Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.
~ Julia McNair Wright
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.
~ Kate Reardon
Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.
~ Louise Fitzhugh