Quotes About Courtesy

The world can be divided between people who can get a waiter's attention and those who can't.

She noted with pleasure that he'd already dispensed with a salutation

Never mind what's going on underneath. As long as we're all 'civil.

Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

If a struldbrug happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore; for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife. "As

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

Tata krama adalah seni untuk membuat orang merasa tidak canggung bercakap-cakap dengan kita.

A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

A man should be honest and up front about his intentions towards a woman, he should respect said woman and be considerate of her feelings.

La cortesia è la medicina delle donne, la cortesia è il massimo ornamento; bellezza senza cortesia è come un giardino senza fiori.

Now, what can I do for you, Agent Hayes?" "It's just R.C., thanks." He wondered for a second if he should have business cards printed up saying that. "What

When a girl turns down your advances, the polite thing to do is just move on.

We say "please" to our children to model a socially acceptable way to make a small request. But "please" lends itself best to our more relaxed moments.

Do we still live in a world where being polite keeps order or does it leave you vulnerable?

Until 1922, for instance, equerries were expected to pay for their own cartridges when they were shooting with the king.)

Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

If a guy wants to take me out, he must seek my dad's permission first. That's just the way it works.

And, to say truly, the greatest benefit that learning bringeth unto men is this: that it teacheth men that be rough and rude of nature, by compass and rule of reason, to be civil and courteous, and to like better the mean state than the higher.

Another Spartan, when he saw men sitting on stools in a lavatory, declared: "May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man.