Top 30 Quotes About Courtesy Manners
#1. Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.
Emily Post
#2. In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.
Mary Doria Russell
#3. The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
Fannie Flagg
#5. The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
Michel De Montaigne
#7. Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good.
David Chiles
#8. What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#9. Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways
Franz Boas
#10. Once he got there, he stopped and looked back. You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice the lack of them in others. It's a lot harder to see mistakes in ourselves.
Rose Wynters
#11. Consideration is the basis of etiquette, and it starts at home. If you can't show consideration to your spouse, child or family member any consideration you show outside is shallow and a farce.
Chinha Raheja
#12. A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant McGill
#14. Kindness is strength, courtesy is power.
T.A. Uner
#15. No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
Bryant McGill
#17. A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
William Cowper
#22. Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#23. Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
#25. others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.
Peter F. Drucker
#26. He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.
Samuel Johnson
#28. Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman's ability to make everyone ... feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness ...
Benazir Bhutto
#29. The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman carrying three grocery bags, a briefcase, and a toddler is seized with the symbolism of idealism.
Judith Martin
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