Quotes About Courtesy

'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

In real life, I'm the kind of person that if I use Siri, I thank her afterwards.

My philosophy is, if I couldn't say it in front of my grandmother, I probably shouldn't say it.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

I haven't had a lot of 'Games Of Thrones' groupies. The fans seem to be really nice. They don't seem that invasive.

I'd rather be a good guest in someone's home than tell them I don't like their food or make fun of them.

While interrupting is not always wrong, it should never become a habit.

Respect me at all means. No halfway disrespect.

Love takes the extra time and trouble to give others the courtesy of an explanation. — Janet Graham —

True courtesy," he continued, "earns the name. It is courtesy that is truthful. When the plebeian kneels to the monarch, he is offering his neck. He offers it because he knows his ruler can take it if he wishes. Common people like that say-or rather, they used to say, in older and better times—that I have no love of truth. But the truth is that it is precisely truth that I love, an open acknowledgment of fact.

My master, the Marquis of Carabas, sends you greetings.

He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

It is offensive to tell a lady when she is expressing her amazement at your skill, that she is altogether mistaken and rather foolish in her amazement.

Pray tell me what it is," said Dorothea, anxiously, also rising and going to the open window, where Monk was looking in, panting and wagging his tail. She leaned her back against the window-frame, and laid her hand on the dog's head; for though, as we know, she was not fond of pets that must be held in the hands or trodden on, she was always attentive to the feelings of dogs, and very polite if she had to decline their advances.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

When I meet a girl I like, I call her the next day. I don't play that three-day rule. Maybe that's psycho.

In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.