Top 1200 Courtesy Manners Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Well, that’s just a little hard, since I can’t even talk her into sparing your life, huh? You haven’t exactly endeared yourself to her. (Kat) Oh, excuse my utter lack of manners there. Should we call Mommy dearest and invite her over for tea? I promise to be on my best manners when I choke the life out of her. (Sin)

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

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

I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

Karate begins and ends with courtesy.

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

There's a thing that happens to Midwesterners - we spend a lot of time talking about having a different set of rules about manners. I don't know about ethics, but certainly about manners, what you would say and what you wouldn't say. And that is not very East coast.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be.

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these people to approve of everyone's manners. I don't feel obliged to defend the manners of every poet who submits a poem to my web site. That's not my job. My job is to provide them with an opportunity to speak from the heart. If there's not much in the heart and if the mouth is running wild, that's not my problem.

Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

All doors open to courtesy.

The greater person is one of courtesy.

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.

GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the table manners of others is rude. But to overthrow the accepted conventions of society, on the flimsy grounds that you have found them silly, inefficient and discomforting, is a dangerous step toward destroying civilization.

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

The grace of God is courtesy.

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

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

I just believe in common courtesy.

They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It’s good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.