Quotes about Politeness

I want you to treat me nicely and respectfully. Call you 'sir', perhaps? she asked quietly. Yes, call me 'sir'. I should love it. Then I wish you would go upstairs, sir.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

It isn't etiquette to cut anyone you've been introduced to. Remove the joint!

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

The greatest politeness is free of all formality. Perfect conduct Is free of concern. Perfect wisdom is unplanned. Perfect love is without demonstrations. Perfect sincerity offers No guarantee.

In Chile it is bad manners to acknowledge that you're overly satisfied, because that can irritate the less fortunate, which is why for us the correct answer to the question "How are you?" is "So-so." That is an opening for sympathizing with the other speaker's situation.

Take time to be Courteous. Courtesy lightens the burdens of toil. Courtesy demands respect. Courtesy is a little brother to Opportunity and follows her around through the hours of the busy day. Courtesy always leads a man higher up.

You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.