Quotes About Courtesy

Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off. "Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I'd never seen him with his breeches down, chasing after some big Afghan bint.

I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother

That's pretty." He remembered Sansa telling him once that he should say that whenever a lady told him her name.

You may dress an ironman in silks and velvets, teach him to read and write and give him books, instruct him in chivalry and courtesy and the mysteries of the Faith," writes Archmaester Haereg, "but when you look into his eyes, the sea will still be there, cold and grey and cruel.

A lady's armor is courtesy

Tyrion was exceedingly courteous; he offered his sister the choice portions of every dish, and made certain he ate only what she did. Not that he truly thought she'd poison him, but it never hurt to be careful.

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

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

es igual de fácil y toma el mismo tiempo decir, "Lo siento, mi vida. En este momento no tengo tiempo", en lugar de "¡¿Qué no puedes ver que estoy ocupado?! ¡Deja de molestar!". Con los niños, un sencillo acto de cortesía puede hacer mucho.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.