Quotes about Courtesy

The conduct of some professed Christians is so lacking in kindness and courtesy that their good is evil spoken of.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Being Set at meat Scratch not, neither Spit, Cough, or blow your Nose except there's a Necessity for it.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion.

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

It's the little things that smoothes people's roads the most.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

A kindly courtesy does at least save one's feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.

Perhaps she had not succeeded in inspiring any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness, keeping aloof from all that savored of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.