Quotes About Courtesy

The closest she got to pretence was politeness.

Etiquette may be bad but embarrassment is worse.

The seat I had taken was marked for the use of the elderly and handicapped, but had another claimant come, a figure like Charles, for instance, I would have been prepared to leave the train, when my stop came, with a lurching gait or limb held awry to designate my previously unguessed incapacity.

You just can't go around putting your hand through people's faces. It's rude for one thing. Deeply unsettling for another.

Well," Skulduggery said. "That was rude.

But the truth is, sometimes kids—and adults—seem to wait until their relatives are out of the room to go. It's like they don't want to distress them more than they have to.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, "Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous.

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote.

Sometimes chivalry is just nice,

Don't ever be late. It's like proclaiming that your time is more important than someone else's.

Professor Asshole would never hold a door open, considering it a condescending, paternalistic passive-aggressive gesture perpetuating the male power structure.

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

People can have nicknames. Body parts should not.

A boy stepping into the street and opening an umbrella for a girl keeping dry in the doorway.

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense.

Quiet customers get served first.

I'm done peeing now." "Thank you for letting me know.