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Quotes About Courtesy

Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?
~ Ally Carter
Always wipe your mouth before you take a drink
~ Ally Carter
Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission.
~ Alyson Noel
J'imagine que je dois bénir la notion de civilisation, qui a contaminé de politesse les moindres aspects de nos engagements,sinon, j'aurais sans doute posé des lapins au monde entier.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex.
~ Lyle Lovett
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
~ Loretta Young
What should be covered must be covered. Women should not trouble others by wearing jeans.
~ K. J. Yesudas
You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
~ Madeleine Albright
I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.
~ Doug Henning
Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I don't sugarcoat things, but I'm very polite in delivering them.
~ Kellyanne Conway
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
~ Paul McCartney
I really think the more talent people have, the more polite they are: Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness always arrived on time and were impeccably behaved. It's only the gutter snipes who leave their lipstick on the studio floor - and that's just the men.
~ Antony Armstrong-Jones
No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
~ Charles Eastman
'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.
~ Andre Aciman
It's important to be courteous; it has to be. I was raised very well by my parents, so it's about being polite and courteous.
~ Daniel Sturridge
Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.
~ Judith Martin
Being polite does not mean being mummified.
~ Judith Martin
I'm not disrespectful, I try to be polite.
~ Ronnie Radke
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
~ Daniel Clowes
I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
~ Mayim Bialik
When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.
~ Adam DeVine
People are not as nice as they used to be. There used to be a time when we conversed. You don't get a lot of real responses now. They used to be more polite and well-mannered people, generally. It's minimal now.
~ Aretha Franklin
Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I've ever worked with.
~ Robert Englund