Jim Butcher Quotes

pretty please, with a cherry on top of me!

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

It is not polite to receive a favor without returning it.

Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

I think the most important manner is just general kindness. When you go to big cities, sometimes people forget to just say, "Good morning," or "How are you?"

I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.