Quotes About Courtesy

There's nothing in our book, the Quran -- you call it "Ko-ran" -- that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion.

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Other people's sex lives are a little like other people's holidays: you're glad that they had fun but you weren't there and don't necessarily want to see the photos.

At the same time President Kennedy invited me - and all the other millions of Europe - to try the novelty of tourism in the U.S., he issued a secret directive to 180,000,000 Americans to be nice to us. How else to explain the embarrassing generosity, the overwhelming kindness, the extreme courtesy at every turn?

with good manners

Nunca le niegues el saludo a nadie, me explicaba, no les concedas la ventaja de que sepan lo que piensas de ellos.

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

Stop talking filthy things, It doesn't help anyone.

It is dehumanizing, demeaning and humiliating when you fail or refuse to acknowledge or respond to a Good Morning greeting. #Mannerism

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

I think the most important manner is just general kindness. When you go to big cities, sometimes people forget to just say, "Good morning," or "How are you?"

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?