Quotes About Courtesy

The basic thing you teach your children is to respect other people. It is not rocket science; it's as simple as brushing your teeth.

I hate phone calls, so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.' If you find yourself in the middle of something, getting an unprompted annoyance is incredibly frustrating.

Vic remembers well the admonitions he received as a boy. Any gift or favor to him quickly resulted in a thank-you note, always on off-white paper and always written in black ink.

Yeah, she's something. Thanks, Mr. Kaufman." Tracy started from the store but turned back when Mr. Kaufman called her name.

Interrupting a man when he's discussing his profession is like telling him what he has to say isn't important. Besides, you never learn anything when you're talking." Lane

Interrupting a man when he's discussing his profession is like telling him what he has to say isn't important. Besides, you never learn anything when you're talking.

Interruption is basically a self serving and egotistical at. It blatantly states What I have to say is more important than what you have to say.

Each smiled and nodded courteously, and each knew the other lied.

He saw no particular humor in it, and was too new to civilization to understand its discourtesies. Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. He was bewildered and chagrined, and doubtless would have slunk away, abashed, but the Kothian chose

Oh, perdona!- dijo el caballero, moviendo rápidamente la pierna para que la ardilla pudiera recuperar su cola. -Espero no haberte hecho daño. No veo muy bien con esta visera en mi camino. -No lo dudo- replico la ardilla sin ningún resentimiento en la voz. -Por eso siempre estáis pidiendo disculpa a la gente por haberles hecho daño.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

the women fell silent with the instinctive courtesy women often show to incapacitated males.

Everyone in the group apart from Strike began to talk at once, but Waldegrave's voice carried over the others' and the women fell silent with the instinctive courtesy women often show to incapacitated males.

Put them through, please," said Strike.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Ochsner 10/5 Way." Employees are expected to smile at and make eye contact with any patient or employee who is within ten feet of them and to say hello to anyone who is within five feet.

You are so cute when you are polite" and "Are you always this nice, or do you single me out because I am so special?

But he wanted to make sure she had privacy and wouldn't be grossed out by a primitive bathroom.

I think a great many marriages would be saved if people would behave toward one another with the same courtesy that they would extend to someone whom they really didn't know as well as a marriage necessarily implies. … It's not very easy to do, but it is surely easier to do than to haggle and nag and fight and bitch and yelp at one another as you hear a lot of married people doing … They seem to feel that the familiarity of affection permits anything, including insult.

Be the most polite person that you know. • Be honest to a fault. • Deeply commit yourself to being a world-class listener. • Send handwritten thank you notes on a regular basis. • Seek out opportunities to do random acts of kindness.

you can say whatever you want so long as you say it with respect.

good manners are the lubricant of an organization.

Everyone who enters your life has a lesson to teach and a story to tell. Every person you pass during the moments that make up your days represents an opportunity to show a little more of the compassion and courtesy that define your humanity. Why not start