Quotes About Courtesy

Make sure your bathroom is clean. If you're having a girl over the house for the first time, make sure your toilet is clean, not disgusting. Guys' bathrooms are always the most disgusting thing.

The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.

He spoke with a knowledge that's almost completely forgotten, and of which almost nothing completely verifiable can survive. He offered opinions rather than information. He spoke about Balzac as he might have done about himself, as if he himself had once tried to be Balzac. He had a sublime courtesy even in knowledge, a way at once profound and clear of handling knowledge without ever making it seem an obligation or a burden. He was sincere.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Good conversation is a courtesy, a kindness, a form of caritas that has as its deepest implicit intention binding one another together in understanding and love.

Kindly intentioned, but not considerate.

Keeping his distance was a favor, a courtesy, to all those strangers who might, probably would, emerge somehow poorer for proximity to him.

Ortega y Gasset: «La claridad es la cortesía del filósofo».

La mujer sonreía teatralmente y se había lanzado a hablar sin pausas. En el chisporroteo de palabras, las formulas de cortesía que Alberto había escuchado en su infancia aparecían como en caricatura, condimentadas con adjetivos lujosos y gratuitos, y a ratos comprendía que lo trataban de señor y de don y lo interrogaban sin esperar su respuesta. Se halló envuelto en una costra verbal, en un laberinto sonoro.

Buen chico. Y yo dije: —Gracias por la cena —porque eso es ser educado.

Bueno, ¿cómo te va, capitán? Y yo dije: —Me va muy bien, gracias —que es lo que se supone que tienes que decir.

It's very nice of you to come and say hello." I didn't reply to this either because Mrs. Alexander was doing what is called chatting, where people say things to each other which aren't questions and answers and aren't connected.

Her courtesy, her compliance, and especially her silence dated from a time otherwise gone.

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It's an unpardonable sin as far as I'm concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

There could be no doubt, so I was finally forced to decide, that the longer one dealt with them, the more one developed the habit of treating generals like members of the opposite sex; specifically, like ladies no longer young, who therefore deserve extra courtesy and attention; indeed, whose every whim must be given thought.

I wonder whether what we call politeness isn't just weakness

Wars about trifles are always bitter, especially among neighbours. When the differences are great, and the parties comparative strangers, men quarrel with courtesy. What combatants are ever so eager as two brothers?

Courtesty and cordiality are not only not the same, but they are incompatible. Why so? Courtesy is an effort, and cordiality is free.

Believe me, my child, that Christian ministers are never called on by God's word to insult the convictions, or even the prejudices of their brethren, and that religion is at any rate not less susceptible of urbane and courteous conduct among men than any other study which men may take up.

No, Mr Cheesacre; certainly not. For all our sakes, I should decline. But if you were married—" "You are always wanting to marry me, Mrs Greenow.

Each lady was disposed to get as much and to give as little as possible —