Courtesy Quotes · Page 5

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

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

— Anonymous

“You know, when a beautiful bleeding woman shows up at your door, it's common courtesy to let her in or help her…

— Allison Ivy

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

— Philip Massinger

I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.

— William Chillingworth

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

— Frances Xavier Cabrini

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage…

— Paul McCartney

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

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground,…

— Jeremy Bentham

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

President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of…

— David O. McKay

If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the…

— Rick Warren

“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal…

— Miguel Cervantes

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of…

— George Stillman Hillard

Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination…

— Immanuel Kant

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a…

— Ayn Rand

“She supposed the young colored men of Link's generation couldn't have manners like Mr. Powther's, though she didn't know why. Wars and…

— Ann Petry

If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity, Just hope the Big Man show me some courtesy

— Nas

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

— Theodor Adorno

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

— William Shakespeare

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

— Colson Whitehead

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether.

— Jorge Luis Borges

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person,

— Nelson Mandela

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

“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

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would…

— Baltasar Gracian

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

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

— Leif Enger

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

— Thomas Carlyle