Quotes About Courtesy

My mission is to become a person of true character and integrity, contributing to my country and attaining a state of peak health and mental serenity. I will have a superb family and professional life while I build lasting wealth. I will be courteous to all and live my life with tremendous zest and joy.

y nos invitó a todos a que nos comprometiéramos no solo a ser los mejores en lo que hacíamos, sino también a tratar a cada persona con una cortesía exquisita y un respeto extraordinario.

Please do not bring female visitors of the opposite sex into rooms.

Mr. Rockefeller, maintaining the utmost courtesy, continued to dominate the room.

Extremely punctual for all appointments, he said, "A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily.

ask once, ask twice if you must, but for God's sake don't ask three times.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

When introducing someone to another person: If you're not comfortable mentioning someone's job during the introduction, mention their hobby or even a talent.

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unacquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood – a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both. In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both.

She holds up a finger. I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

Nice is good. It doesn't sound exciting, but think about it. I think Mr. Perfect would be kind to kids and animals, help old ladies across the street, not insult you when your opinion is different from his. Being nice is so important it's close to being number one.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course, used to be careful about playing Wagner abroad, at least in some countries, choosing instead German composers who were somewhat more ... apologetic.

Angus thought about this. She was right. That was why our national conversation was so bad. Courtesy had been abandoned in favour of the put-down, the attack, the calculated sound bite. What sort of national conversation was that? The answer came to him immediately: none.

There is a marked decline in something we value. It's the destruction of civility, said the Duke. Twenty years ago, people may have had their differences of opinion - of course they did- but they did not abuse one another for it. They respected those with whom they disagreed. They spoke courteously.