“Finding no quotation on point, she improvised: "I've always found that elaborate courtesy makes most people behave.” — Susan Rieger Copy Share Image
Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“And what had I done for him? Nothing. I hadn’t even done him the courtesy of letting him know how I felt.” — Kendall Ryan Copy Share Image
Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend. — Claudia Jones Copy Share Image
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Never call your broker on Monday. Out of courtesy and common sense, wait until Tuesday. A good broker is focused on the… — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
From the time I've landed in India and wherever I've travelled, I've only experienced politeness and courtesy. There has been no hatred… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be… — Confucius Copy Share Image
On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person, — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But West, like the rest of the Trevors, was endlessly polite. It gave them protection; they could stand neatly behind their courtesy.” — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects. — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
BTW, the roach's name is Max (courtesy of Brianna, "because of I had a puppy, I'd name him Max"). — Rachel Renée Russell Copy Share Image
Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity, Just hope the Big Man show me some courtesy — Nas Copy Share Image
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first… — John Milton Copy Share Image
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Courtesy,” said Lieutenant Dariet, her voice uncharacteristically prim, “is always proper, and always beneficial” — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
