Quotes About Courtesy

If you have rules the guests need to follow concerning your staff or pets in your house, be sure to kindly let them know so that there will be no misunderstandings.

If you're in public and standing still, don't take a phone call. It's that simple. All you're doing is holding those around you hostage to a one-sided conversation.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

When you borrow a man's car, always return it with a tank of gas.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

No man does right by a woman at a party.

Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness.

Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple. —DAVID KEUCK