“If a lady offers you a kindness, you absolutely have to accept” — Maria Wallingford Copy Share Image
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knowing what to say isn't enough; we must know how to say it in a nice way. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The media is telling you who Donald Trump is and what he's saying and what he's doing, courtesy of anonymous leaks. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Shouldn't be surprised but continues to be amazed at how common courtesy escapes some people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time. — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
“Nice is a little word with a big meaning. How many times did your mother say, "Just be nice?" It's basic manners,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I very much believe in values-based leadership, and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
