Quotes About Courtesy

When someone does a professional favor for you, send a handwritten note. You must send a written note to a mentor or sponsor when she helps you. Perhaps even a gift. And here's a great tip from Archambeau: When you take someone's advice, let her know it and how it worked out. So few people ever do that.

You can't sneeze in Dublin without somebody saying 'God bless you' in Kerry.

It is just as easy to be polite as to be rude, and men are served better for love than for fear.

Sabemos que a este hombre de batallas no lo volvió matonesco la montura y que, en cuanto bajaba, era civil, como si al general lo dejase en el estribo, y por añadido tan cortesano, que bailaba como si se pasara el día danzando sobre los tapices.

Asiente por cortesía pero no cree en los actos fortuitos. Como aficionado a la lectura, cree en la estructura. Si aparece una pistola en el capítulo uno, más vale que se dispare en el capítulo tres. Es decir, cree en la narrativa.

We can be kind, generous, just, courteous, and merciful sporadically, but to display those virtues, consistently, calls for an enormous display of courage.

On humbleness. — To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals is courtesy; to inferiors is nobleness; and to all, safety!

I am sorry," he would say, addressing himself unexpectedly to the astonished onlooker. "I am sorry, I am concerned with that section of space which you are filling. Couldn't you move a little to one side for a minute?

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy

Distance is one of the most beautiful forms of respect

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

Moderation is best in all things, and not letting a man go when he wants to do so is as bad as telling him to go if he would like to stay. One should treat a guest well as long as he is in the house and speed him when he wants to leave it.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

In the cyclonic mess of Kyoto traffic, two cars scrape bumpers. Both drivers leap out. Each bows, apologizing profusely for his carelessness.

Like many who have little to say, he said too much, interrupting without courtsey and favoring with the benefit of his wisdom those who did not desire it.

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy. The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.

You don't name something after something derogatory. You wouldn't name your child something derogatory. You wouldn't name your team something derogatory.

Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.