Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy. — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make… — Lalah Hathaway Copy Share Image
Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends. — James Thomas Fields Copy Share Image
I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy… — Peter Arnett Copy Share Image
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
If you go out with someone and decide you don't want to see them again, do them the courtesy of saying, "Hey,… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“By speaking with courtesy and respect, you are offering a wonderful gift to yourself, a useful embarrassment to the unkind, and a… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image
“I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as… — James Thomas Fields Copy Share Image
The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
Offer your soul and wealth to your friend, offer your equity and fairness for your enemy, and offer your courtesy and charity… — Zahid Abas Copy Share Image
“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor… — Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
“But Johannes had said, "Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity,… — John Wanamaker Copy Share Image
If you go out on a date, for the first date, a guy should pay, a guy should be respectful and, you… — Carly Aquilino Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
