Quotes About Courtesy

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

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

Let other people finish their sentences when they're talking.

Meet people properly: It all starts with the introduction

Thanks for respecting me.

I just have to work on the apologetic side because I'm Canadian. We apologize for everything.

I think that we all got to have respect for each other. And we could all be more careful with the things we say.

My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah - whatever.

U.K. guys think it is cheesy to be nice.

Smacking or chewing really loud and obnoxiously at dinner is a no-no. You know, if we're eating tacos, and I know we gotta use our hands, but if it gets all over your face, it's not sexy to me. That's not a good look.

There's a big difference between chauvinism and chivalry.

Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.

I think civility is important to getting things done.

Civility is a choice.

There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

If you're ever bcc'd, do not go near 'reply all.' 'Bcc' is 'blind carbon copy.' It means you're a fly on the wall, dude! If you hit reply all, it's beyond bad etiquette to out the person who gave you the superpower of invisibility. It's like screaming, 'I'm a spy!'

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

It was surprising to me to hear a member question whether another member of the House was an adult. We're all adults in the House of Commons, and I think it diminishes us all to suggest otherwise.

You don't speak to people in London, he remembered; in fact you don't speak to people anywhere in England; there is plenty of time for that sort of thing on the appointed occasions –

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

When you hurry someone along, interrupt someone, or finish his or her sentence, you have to keep track not only of your own thoughts but of those of the person you are interrupting