Caroline Polachek Quotes

Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

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

Just because you can say things that are uncivil does not mean that your should say things that are uncivil.

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

I'm not disrespectful, I try to be polite.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

I learned to treat everybody with respect. I've learned to be focused, be a professional person, the kind who is always an honor to be around.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.

My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' and that's just something I've been doing for a long time.

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

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.