Quotes About Courtesy

In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.

I get wound up by bad manners on public transport.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

But then, the code of manliness requires us not to make comments on the intolerable ugliness of others. So I shall say no more about your condition, sir. But I do hope you manage to find some professional help.

You lie, cheat and steal and call it courtesy, cunning and thrift.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.

I wasn't sure how to answer. Could I tell him that one Secret of Adulthood is Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense'?

Papá me enseñó a coquetear con todo el mundo, chicas y chicos, y acabé por considerar el encanto -y no la cortesía o la franqueza, o incluso la decencia- la principal virtud mundana

I've never been derogatory towards taxi drivers.

There are a lot of players who fiddle around with their towel in your shot or they get up out of their chair to see if a ball's on when you're about to play your shot.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

Ciara, there are certain things a man does not ask of a lady." "You are not asking." "Aye.

There is no way to hold your own in a relationship and simultaneously accept rude behavior.

Perhaps he should have brought her something. Flowers. Or cake, if she had managed to reverse Maximum Tolerable Chins.

Leighton was used to letting women talk. Whether by temperament or by the requirement to be amiable, women talked, their speech the unguent that greased the gears of polite society.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with a few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I learned that when people greeted me by saying, "Hi! How are you?" the correct response was not to elaborate on how I actually felt but to toss it right back at them with a "Fine. How are you?

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

If you sprinkle when you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat.