Quotes About Courtesy

I hate wasting people's time.

Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

it's the little things that smoothes people's roads the most

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

Do not bring your dog. (advice for attending a funeral)

A kindly courtesy does at least save one's feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.

The hotel-keeper, the postmaster, the blacksmith, the mayor, the constable, the city marshal and the principal citizen and property holder, all came out and greeted us cheerily, and we gave him good day.

I think that all this courteous lying is a sweet and loving art, and should be cultivated.

Rather, think of etiquette as a philosophy of living and enjoying life with grace, compassion, and respect for others.

Inspira tal horror el egoísmo que inventamos la cortesía para ocultarlo como una parte vergonzosa de nosotros mismos.

Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.

You felt the need to say hello. Indeed, it seemed impolite not to do so.

She said I was the most sensitive boy she'd ever met, which I didn't understand because really all I did was not interrupt her.

I knew it wasn't fair, though, to ruin her time just because I miss everybody, so I just said good night and left.

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

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

Be kind. Be courteous. Love others and be happy. It's that simple.

You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.

He has an innate sense of courtesy, the kind of man who will instictively open a door for a woman, not because he's making some kind of chivalrous gesture but because it wouldn't occur to him not to open the door if someone needed to go through it.