Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.
Bryant McGillTags: manners politeness courtesy consideration
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Bryant McGillTags: manners politeness rudeness
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
Bryant McGillTags: manners rudeness courtesy politenessness
It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.
Andrew LevkoffTags: manners survival etiquette good-manners
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.
Lynne TrussTags: manners etiquette grammar punctuation
Gli uomini veri impazziscono per le ragazze che sanno dire di no. Gli stupidi si accontentano delle facili.
Marilyn MonroeThey were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.
Lemony SnicketTags: humor inspirational food manners cookies
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
bell hooksTags: love manners self-confidence awarness self-care giving-others-space
Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: manners politeness culture cultural-decay
Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.
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