Quotes about Etiquette
Politeness and courtesy are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.
- John Wooden
when you start displaying courtesy, politeness, and consideration, people start displaying them right back.
- John Wooden
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.
- JRR Tolkien
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
- GK Chesterton
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
- George Washington
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
- Proverbs 27:14
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.
- Mark Twain
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Mark Twain
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
- Victor Hugo