Taylor Mali Quotes

It's nice when people approach you to help.

Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice.

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

I am much obliged to you gentlemen for leaving me one sentence of my own.

We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.

I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young man for his seat. He replied, 'There's one over there'. I said, 'Please', and when he refused I poured my water over him.

If someone is nice to you, how can you be mean to them?

Be nice to everyone you meet, including janitors, receptionists, and everyone.

Everyone can be rude, and everyone can be kind.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

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

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

I'm not sure if I've learned anything from show business. Life in general has taught me if you're kind to people, everything gets easier. Being a decent person really smoothes the way for you and everyone else.

You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.