Quotes About Courtesy

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

Superior people never make long visits.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

"Let us agree not to step on each other's feet," said the cock to the horse.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.

I thank you for not snoring.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely, most politely, Flatter and impress the lady Most politely, most politely, Humbly beg and humbly sue, She may deign to look on you.

Courtesy is a little thing that makes a big difference.

A little thing that don't cost nothing, and it's just the little things that makes a man to be looked up to and liked.

You shouldn't have private conversations in public facilities at the top of your lungs." Point well taken, Eve was forced to admit.

give details, professional courtesy

The least I can do after standing you up tonight is make you feel manly.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. —LORD HALIFAX

So funktioniert Höflichkeit. Man pflegt Beziehungen mit Leuten, auch wenn man sie nicht mag.

Podríamos dejar que este intercambio de cortesías de rigor fallezca de muerte natural?