Lynn Coady Quotes

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

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

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.

I'm a very respectful person.

It's important to be courteous; it has to be. I was raised very well by my parents, so it's about being polite and courteous.

Good manners don't cost nothing.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

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

All doors open to courtesy.

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?

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.