Quotes about Courtesy
Manners is treating people with respect.
- Tana French
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.
- Thomas Monson
Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
- Letitia Baldrige
People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.
- Barack Obama
You're welcome.
- Ernest Cline
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
- St. Basil
I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.
- Deborah Raney
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.
- Ted Dekker
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
- Samuel Johnson
Treat people how you want to be treated.
- Donald Trump