Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. — Erastus Wiman Copy Share Image
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say… — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such… — Edward M Hays Copy Share Image
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
“Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Fathers are very, very important in building the foundations and self-esteem of children. For me, the way that I was raised, consideration,… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work considered… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
I think, as a professional courtesy, when the president asks you to dinner, you go. — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you know someone is already taken, respect their relationship. Don't be the reason why they end up single. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being. — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine a truly beautiful world without courtesy being integral to its culture.” — Hrishikesh Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
I'd never disrespect women. I have been brought up to treat women with courtesy and dignity. — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice. — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. — Khaleda Zia Copy Share Image
Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
