Quotes About Courtesy

Well I'm finding it harder to be a gentleman every day All the manners that I've been taught have slowly died away But if I held the door open for you It wouldn't make your day.

Apparently unembittered, she remained a charming, scatterbrained, unpunctual creature, the darling of the public. The Prince, by way of atonement, was always careful to treat her with great respect and courtesy.

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Wisdom should control courtesy. Courtesy should control righteousness. Righteousness should control benevolence. Benevolence should control trustworthiness. Trustworthiness should control wisdom. When these five natures produce and control each other thus in a continuous circle, then no element of personality dominates; they all interact, balancing each other, resulting in completeness of the five natures.

To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard him with interest, it is one of the fictions of courtesy to presume that he does.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

I was told that karate has a courtesy: 'Start with a bow and end with a bow.' This is something important we value in our lives, because we never forget courtesy and a feeling of gratitude wherever we go.

If you're not a nice person, don't call.

Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.

I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women.

Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

You've gotta respect everybody. If they race hard against you, you've got to race hard against them. It's very simple; if there's respect both ways, there's no problem.

I have no problem with people expressing their opinion as long as it is with respect.

But I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people's names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected.

Excuse me, but I'm very tired of being interrupted and ordered around and spoken to like a recalicitrant eight-year-old. Then don't behave like one, Brian suggested.

It's not a matter of jealousy. It's a matter of courtesy.

It's a look that says: Thank you for not sharing.

Now the passing etiquette. Do I give you the ass or the crotch?