Quotes About Courtesy

I've actually walked out on a girl for being rude to a waitress. I go in to that restaurant all the time and that waitress was a good friend of mine.

If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

When someone walks into me, whether it's my fault or not, I say, 'Sorry.'

When a hot woman walks by, and we ask if she's your type, refrain from saying things like, 'Nah, I like a woman with a little meat on her bones' as you give us a squeeze.

I'm a big believer in manners and respect: that one should never do to another what you wouldn't wish for yourself.

You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

You can tell when someone recognizes you and they want to say something, but they don't want to bother you.

Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.

You mustn't upstage the bride.

I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

I neither throw my weight around nor do I bully anyone on the set.

I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.

Well, you had better speak more slowly so we can understand. We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place at all times. All right, now, go on with your speech.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

But how insular and pathetically solitary are all the people we know! Nor dare they tell what they think of each other when they meet in the street. We have a fine right, to be sure, to taunt men of the world with superficial and treacherous courtesies!

It is a proverb that "courtesy costs nothing"; but calculation might come to value love for its profit. Love is fabled to be blind, but kindness is necessary to perception; love is not a hood, but an eye-water.

That would be the desirable situation most of the time. The five main virtues of the medieval knight might be brought in here. One is temperance, another is courage, another is love, another is loyalty, and another is courtesy. Courtesy is respect for the decorum of the society in which you are living.

is always better to bow too low than not bow low enough.