Quotes About Courtesy

No one offends a cook.

Oh, thank you, young man!" one of the women said. Her glasses made her eyes look gigantic. "Chivalry still exists in this day and age. See, Flo? What a gentleman.

This night would have been so much more pleasant if all the men had stopped talking.

sure. I know I hated it when a resident disregarded a

Worst of all, we seem to have lost our ability to discuss important issues respectfully and courteously and cannot come together enough to begin to solve our problems.

In my experience, if you look people in the eye they usually mind their own business

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

Modesty... consists in pretending not to think better of ourselves and our belongings than of the man we are speaking to and his belongings.

The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

Civility is not simply about manners.

rudeness is a misdemeanor in Charleston.

Never hint that there is something wrong with their country.

Everyone is an atheist until they clog a toilet in someone else's house

He has already struck the match, his hands cupped to protect the small flame against the currents of the air but also to smuggle more of his body into the exchange, under cover of courtesy. Frazer always cups his hands around the flame and leans near, even when indoors in a place with no drafts. Some men embrace all the retrograde aspects of gallantry because they've intuited that to be gallant is to take sexual hold of a woman, however obliquely. She thinks Frazer is one of these men.

Be pleasant, patient, and professional, please.

The trouble with us is that we've been too polite with each other.

Though liberal in his praise and always courteous and condescending to the shop-people, he was scarcely ever known to pay a bill and when he died, the amount of money owing to Brandy's was considerable. Mr. Brandy, a short-tempered, pinched-faced, cross little old man, was beside himself with rage about it. He died shortly afterwards, and was presumed by many people to have done so on purpose and to have gone in pursuit of his noble debtor.

The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.

Any references to pregnancy or childbirth are coarse, and should be carefully side-stepped by the truly well-bred, as should intrusive comments on love-affairs.

Les habían ofrecido tinticos y tecitos, esos diminutivos que los bogotanos usan para ser amables

Nunca hubo caballero que salvase a dama con tanta gallardía y discreción.» Es de Chrétien de Troyes.