Kaitlan Collins Quotes

I'm polite.

To be rude to someone is not my nature.

I would hope I was raised polite and charming.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

The thing I most admire about Omar Bradley is his gentleness. He was never known to issue an order to anybody of any rank without saying "Please" first.

We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

All doors open to courtesy.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.