When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“With your lunch box, do not forget to carry courtesy, respect, and gratitude from home!” — Rupali Desai Copy Share Image
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time. — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Courtesy demands reciprocity and this is essential in relations between countries. — Wang Yusheng Copy Share Image
A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense,… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I… — William Shawn Copy Share Image
The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you… — Douglas Adams 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
If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the… — Anonymous 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
From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the… — David Walker Copy Share Image
