Quotes About Courtesy

Masak sama-sama orang segan-menyegani - Pak Komandan

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

You look as if you're ready for bed. (to the Nigerian President, who was dressed in traditional robes)

Don't be ever in court or a castle without a woman to make your excuse.

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Can Miss Himmelsteen get you a tasty beverage?

genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action, in which generosity of conduct is expressed. It reveals the man himself and has no ulterior purpose.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

With a woman around, there's a tendency to eliminate vulgarity and profanity and create a more businesslike attitude.

Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

I don't wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect.

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

If a guy treats me respectfully and the waiter demeaningly, I'm turned off.

When I go to hotels, sometimes I find waiters and people who do not address me as 'Mr.' or address me as a normal guest would have been addressed, simply because my name is Maddy. I find that slightly offending, but I don't react to it thinking that maybe the name is so casual that people think it's a buddy that you are talking to.

I always judge a guy by the way they treat a waiter. If he is not nice to the service staff, he is obviously not a nice person, no matter how he treats me at first.

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.

When people are self-entitled for no reason, just with anything, that bothers me. It's like waiting for someone to cross the road, and they walk slower because they know you're waiting. I like all the credit due in the places that it's supposed to be due.

In fact, everybody should wake up smelling nice. I go further, there is not an excuse, ever, not to smell nice, particularly your feet.

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.