Diana Rigg Quotes

Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be friendly and say 'please' and 'thank you.' I try and remember it and use it.

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.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

It was ingrained in me to be gracious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

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

Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

All doors open to courtesy.

If you're not a nice person, don't call.

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?

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.

Good manners don't cost nothing.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

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

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.