Quotes About Courtesy

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.

If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.

Rod's always opening doors for me, but I usually tell him to walk through first. Otherwise, if we're at a restaurant and I'm in front, the paparazzi end up getting a big giant close-up of me, and then he's trailing behind, looking like my little child!

My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you're spoken to. You look people in the eye when they address you and when you address them back.

Som nau?ená, že ke? sa ma ktosi spýta, ako sa mám, vždy odpoviem: ?akujem, dobre. ?udí nezaujíma, ako sa máš, hovorila mi mama.

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.

Small talk is the WD-40 of society. It has a purpose, perhaps many purposes. A few niceties with a sales clerk, a little joshing with your dentist's receptionist, some light get-to-know-ya banter with a stranger at a party—it keeps the gears of society cranking smoothly, makes the world feel friendly, and protects our social muscles from atrophy.

There is some virtue to be learnt from every part of the world — teamwork from Japan, precision from Germany, marketing and negotiation skills from the United States, courtesy, decency and refinement from the British, and human values from the villages of India. You

Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix.

He remembered lesson #76.5 from Man Decorum 101: Never tell a smart, pissed-off female what to do. Ask her. Nicely. Preferably with roses in hand.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

One private from the Parachute Regiment had passed Nobby every morning on his way from the married quarters. 'Morning, sir!' he would say. One day Nobby stopped him. 'No need to keep calling me "sir" when we see each other every day,' he told him. 'My name's Nobby.' The following day the soldier passed the RSM as usual. 'Morning, Nobby,' he said. 'You're under arrest for insubordination!' said Mr Arnold.

Sir, I can't talk to you without a mask," Moore said loudly. "Go get a mask.

Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

Darf ich mich vorstellen:

And how shall you pay, gentlemen?" enquired Elric politely, still smiling.

Serwde only half understood what Corum was saying, but he listened politely until Corum stopped

Be warned, gentlemen. I possess a revolver and am an expert shot! Holmes accepted this news gravely and informed the man that while he understood that an exchange of pistol fire to be something in the nature of an introductory courtesy in Texas, in England it was still considered impolitic to support one's cause by letting off guns in the house. This I found a little hypocritical from one given to target practice in the parlor!

In a golf club everyone knows the player who does not replace his divot. One can guess how he leads the rest of his life.

I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself.

I was introduced to Amitabh Bachchan by Ram Gopal Varma. He said 'Hello Sudeep' and I just said 'Hi, sir.'

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.