Quotes About Courtesy

I remembered how guest rights worked from our last time in Jotunheim. If you made it inside the house and claimed you were a guest, supposedly the host couldn't kill you. Of course, when we'd tried that before, we ended slaughtering an entire giant family after they attempted to squash us like bugs, but it had all been done with the utmost courtesy.

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

Courtesy is respecting our differences, being considerate of each other's feelings, and being patient with people who irritate us.

at least leave a phone message with HR saying that you've forwarded your résumé and you'd love to interview for the job.

Shoot off an e-mail saying "A handwritten note will follow, but I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed talking to you. The job sounds terrific.

One of the young men she had just met had obviously paid for her ride. Her face was red when he came down the aisle. "I guess," he said, grinning, "if I pay your fare I can sit by you.

If you wanted to greet him or get his attention, you had to say: "Oh, Mr. Forest-Ranger-who-stands-in-the-tower-watching-out-for-forest fires!" If you abbreviated it, or, heaven help us, addressed him simply as "David," you would get no response.

I got up the nerve to ask her if she remembered that first visit and my terrible faux pas. She pretended, in true Japanese fashion, that it had never happened.

Samantha thought he looked very tired and more than a little grim, and even the simmering anger she felt toward him couldn't stop her from appreciating the courtesy. He was most always courteous, Luke. Damn him.

My mind was flying high that day, courtesy of whatever witches' brew of neurotransmitters God had programmed into my genes...

Richard Carlisle,' he said with a cheerful smile as I rose to shake it.

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige

Lloyd held the door and

They was no need to dress formally just for me, but all the same I appreciate the gesture.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

O Kate! nice customs curtsy to great kings.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time, in you?

The very pink of courtesy.

Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

Nobody ever went broke sayin' 'Good Mornin'' to folks.