Quotes About Courtesy

And what may I do for you?" Jane had intended to try to draw her away to the refreshment room, but it seemed they were

I pride myself on always displaying impeccable manners.

He would not have raised an eyebrow and smiled behind his eyes at a lady whose bed he had climbed into by mistake one night. He would have done the gentlemanly thing and died of mortification.

I shall surprise you and behave like a perfect gentleman.

In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.

I give them- one, two, three, four- the kiss of courtesy, of sweet thanks, of anger, of good luck in the deep earth. May they sleep well. May they soften. But I will not give them the kiss of complicity. I will not give them the responsability for my life.

He bowed to show his respect. "Thank you," said Jack and Annie. They bowed back to him.

Thanks," said Annie. "Thanks," said Jack.

Everything he said seemed complimentary, somehow, although he wasn't gallant in the artificial sense. But plainly he liked her, and she liked him.

No," she said, before he could utter a word, "you can't take me home. I have a car waiting. Thank you just the same.

Please proceed, Governor.

People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

Until those basic human responses that normally govern our daily lives—honesty, empathy, courtesy, patience, goodwill—feel like weakness when extended to the other side.

those basic human responses that normally govern our daily lives—honesty, empathy, courtesy, patience, goodwill—

It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved — such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.

common courtesy spoke across cultures

What perished with their cultures were their unique ideas of what it meant to be courteous, reverent, courageous, and just. What disappeared with them were their thoughts about what could be expected to be going on in the places into which we cannot see. As our own cultures continue to unfold around the riptides of aggressive commerce and heedless development, it seems these thoughts might have been good things to have made note of.

Lateness is rude.

The best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency.

Another major change we have lived through is an intolerance of displays of force in everyday life. In earlier decades a man's willingness to use his fists in response to an insult was the sign of respectability.52 Today it is the sign of a boor, a symptom of impulse control disorder, a ticket to anger management therapy.

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.

Love is the smallest part of gallantry.