Courtesy Quotes · Page 7

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

— Anonymous

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

— Maya Angelou

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

— Anonymous

He who plants kindness gathers love.

— Saint Basil

Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.

— William Shakespeare

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

— William Shakespeare

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

— Margaret Chase Smith

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

— Joan M. Drury

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

— Lynne Truss

“There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.' Edward Verrall Lucas.”

— Susan Rieger

“Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in pressing you in all ways to use the utmost…

— Bram Stoker

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

— Cullen Hightower

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

— Little Richard

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

— Maya Angelou

Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even…

— Serge Schmemann

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants…

— John Cheever

Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air…

— Caryll Houselander

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to…

— Frederick Lenz

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to…

— Robert Chambers

Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine…

— Edmund Burke

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of…

— Michel de Montaigne

Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?' 'Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down…

— Anonymous

If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it…

— Mark Forsyth

Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I…

— William Shakespeare

Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We were looking for the Rick Perries, the Scott Walkers, the Bobby Jindals, all to probably still be on the stage.They're all…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics,…

— Shannon L. Alder

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,…

— James F. Cooper

He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting. “You need…

— Patricia Briggs

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

— Karel Capek

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love

— Proverb

A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many…

— Mas Oyama

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with…

— Alexander Pope

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

— Laozi

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

— William Congreve

I wish the men in my house would be a little more courteous and put the toilet seat down.

— Anonymous

“I’m overcome by the inexplicable desire to speak to you with common courtesy.”

— Anthony Marra

Everyone wants to be respected, but only a few people show other people the respect that they desire.

— Jayden Hayes

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

— Francis Bacon