Courteous Quotes - Page 5

• I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.

  Anne Grant

  Texas, Friendly, Information

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• Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Lying, Order

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!

  Bernardino of Siena

  Thinking, Rude, Rosary

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• In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Work, Past

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism, and malicious gossip of their own to help the divorce along.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Couple, Party, Divorce

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Adversity, Fate, Self

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• Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Luck, Stories, Vomiting

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. In this respect there was in the past a change of mentality, in which the law and the need for punishment were obscured. Ultimately this also narrowed the concept of law, which in fact is not only just being nice or courteous, but is found in the truth. And another component of the truth is that I must punish the one who has sinned against real love

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Real, Nice, Past

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• Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me.

  Gary Myers

  Children, Communication, Talking

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• Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording. When a person writes to the Veterans Administration, he is entitled to an easily understood, frank, and courteous reply. If our replies cannot be understood, they are not only not worth writing, but they simply create additional work.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Writing, Simple, Government

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• Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next.... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray.

  Pete Townshend

  New York, Mean, Men

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• Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Intelligent, Self, Discipline

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• Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Rude, Manners

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• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Names, Calling, Levels

  Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 1, 1955.

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• Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Sarcastic, Country

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• Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

  Confucius

  Kindness, Honesty, Persistence

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• As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Honesty, Philosophy, Self

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 7,

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• Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Power, Weapons, Calm

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• Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.

  B. C. Forbes

  Pain, Taken, Order

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• God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.

  Richard Hooker

  Ignorance, Weakness, Ill

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• The common people say, that physicians are the class
  of people who kill other men in the most polite and
  courteous manner.

  John of Salisbury

  Men, Class, People

  Policraticus Bk II, Ch. 29

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• The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and promote qualities which parents and the community are looking for. The whole purpose of scouting is to help the children grow up making good decisions in life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Children, Growing Up, Moving

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• Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.

  Serge Lutens

  Writing, Choices Made, Gestures

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• If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.

  John Lyly

  Young, Ifs, Be Young

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• True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Family, True Friend

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239

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