Quotes About Courtesy

you compensate for your mistakes in so gentlemanly a way, that one almost feels obliged to you for having committed them.

Punctuality,' said Monte Cristo, 'is the politeness of kings, or so I believe one of your sovereigns claimed.

Ser atento y cortés no es ser cobarde.

Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please. Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane.

Thanks so much for this," she said as he pulled to the curb. She put the strap of her pocketbook over her arm, put her hand on the door handle. "You really didn't have to." He seemed to rouse himself from a growing disengagement. "I wanted to," he said. "It was nice to have a chance to get to know you better," he

That was her way. She carried not noticing to an extreme. Not noticing, not intruding, not suggesting.

She was not so forbearing when it came to bad breath. After receiving one French envoy, she exclaimed, 'Good God! What shall I do if this man stay here, for I smell him an hour after he has gone!' Her words were reported back to the envoy, who at once betook himself back to France in shame.

n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like one.

At one time, the first step in courtship was asking permission to write to the person who interested your affections,

The society of women is the element of good manners.

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," was how I was raised, and how I lived for most of my life.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

After a minute, Gat leaned back and let me go first. "Not because you're a girl but because I'm a good person," he told me.

Always be a little nicer than you have to be