Quotes About Courtesy

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.

You gotta be nice. The way I look at it, why not be a nice guy to people?

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

I wouldn't fart in front of my wife, and she wouldn't do it in front of me.

Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing.

If you're not ten minutes early where I'm from, my dad chews you out.

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be polite.

In terms of being a professional, I want to be professional with everyone.

Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone—customers, employees, and vendors.

You are a very beautiful girl, Rosita," he said. "Thank you, senor" Rosita answered.

Honour and courtesy and justice...they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them to us like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims.

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

Reminding myself that these "servants" might be better born than myself, I treated them all with great courtesy and later wondered if that might not be the secret of the harmonious household, that all servants or royalty, be treated with the same courtesy.

Honor and courtesy and justice…they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them up like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims.

Tivessem eles sido cães, teriam me farejado, afastado-se a seguir, mas os humanos não têm dessas cortesias inatas.

Please, siddown.

Always remember how to behave, how to speak to people, how to respect the world around you

Make your point but don't stab anyone with it.

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hearth.' 'Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how they may endure.' -Bergon and Cazaril talking over the past