Quotes About Courtesy

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

She thanked him just as

If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different

Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.

Nobody ever says, Can I have your beets?

The Code of the West Say what you want about me, but leave the horse I rode in on out of it.

80] Respect means; put yourself out. That may look pointless, but it is quite right, because it amounts to saying: I should certainly put myself out if you needed it, because I do so when you do not; besides, respect serves to distinguish the great. If respect meant sitting in an armchair we should be showing everyone respect and then there would be no way of marking distinction, but we make the distinction quite clear by putting ourselves out.

Be a squeaky wheel but talk nice

I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will I trust, excuse me that I do not join you, but I have dined already, and I do not sup.

A private wealth-management firm always invited the wife of one of the company's executives to events. Everyone knew that she would be the first to say hello, to offer a hand, or to help someone find a seat. She always acted as if she were greeting people in her own home, said the event manager. She was better than most of our salespeople. Be first. Take the initiative. People appreciate it when you make the effort.

Conraj starts to talk to the Cat, which sometimes purrs, like a polite acquaintance whose mind is on other things.

Mercurio bowed, a touch too courteously, an edge Chenti, so quick to speak of swords, quite missed.

To Mareme, he nodded politely. At Cyrion he smiled with love.

She bowed herself almost to the ground before Sarmur's daughter, with the flamboyant courtesy of one who secretly rules the kingdom.

I do hope I'm not interrupting what appears to be an inconvenient moment. . . .

It's rude to run off a guest. It's rude to wear out your welcome.

You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.

I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort

The idea that medieval people rarely washed is a nineteenth-century fallacy. Every courtesy book stressed the need to wash one's hands and face daily and it was also customary to wash the hands before eating: guests might be offered water scented with garden herbs or flowers or even, in the wealthiest households, with perfume imported from the east.

I had not given a thought to what a difference it can make when you treat another person with simple respect and dignity, the same respect and dignity you want for yourself. That is so simple, yet so few seem able to do it.

In the context of tragedy, all polite behavior is self-denial.