Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him. — Shigeru Egami 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
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
Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep… — Walter Rauschenbusch 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
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave… — Fran Lebowitz 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
A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable.… — Kent McCord Copy Share Image
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman… — John Paul Jones 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
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity,… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I wish the men in my house would be a little more courteous and put the toilet seat down. — 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
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
