Quotes About Courtesy

Never, ever point out that a woman is eating too much.

Everybody offers to buy one a drink; but nobody ever dreams of buying one a sandwich.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

I'd be glad to kiss you if you don't mind.

Don't be snotty too soon. And then don't be snotty at all.

Beware of a man with manners.

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Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the right way and we dictate what that means …

Don't be crude, Professor. Profanity is one contest you will not win with me.

remember to call them by neutral pronouns like "they" unless they asked me to use a gender. That was the polite thing to do.

Politeness costs nothing.

The voivode with the hard-to-remember name, who must have heard something about the affairs and problems of Fourhorn, politely asked whether the mares were foaling well. Gerald answered yes, much better than the stallions. He wasn't sure if the joke had been well taken, but the voivode didn't ask any more questions.

Nie drwij z cudzej religii, ani to Å'adne, ani grzeczne, ani... bezpieczne.

I think everybody should be nice to everybody.

Mr. Cross, who was digging up dandelions on the lawn with a spud, came up to the car and courteously helped them out, which really makes the getting out more difficult, for there are only two ways of getting out of an ordinary small car: the one, to slide your legs out first and somehow get your skirt and the rest of you to follow rather like coming down a fire escape, the other to get out with your back to the audience and not care what it looks like.

The amount of time she had at her disposal made it difficult for her to be late for anything, even for her own breakfast. And she suspected that even if she were to waste time she would still find a way to be entirely punctual, to the intense annoyance of those who had never mastered the art. For it was an art, less to do with courtesy than with modesty. Only grander personalities could afford to assume that others would wait.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Whenever I go out with a girl for a meal, I'm recognised, and I hear, 'That's Chad's girl,' before anyone even approaches for a picture. I can't take arrogance and rude behaviour, and I really get a lot of it.

My momma says whenever you go to somebody's house, you have to give them something. Don't come empty-handed.

Actually Maddy is my name. But I feel that whenever you address somebody, there needs to be certain amount of dignity rendered to it - irrespective of whether it's a film star or somebody you are fond of. I find it very pleasing when somebody refers to me as 'Mr. Madhavan' or 'Sir' or 'Mr. Maddy.'

From the time I've landed in India and wherever I've travelled, I've only experienced politeness and courtesy. There has been no hatred whatsoever. But I strongly feel every country has its formalities and rules that one has to abide by. I believe in respecting that, as it is in the best interests of everyone.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

I'm glad you can't talk on your cells while the plane is in the air. That would drive me crazy.