Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. — Homer Copy Share Image
Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail. — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you go out on a date, for the first date, a guy should pay, a guy should be respectful and, you… — Carly Aquilino Copy Share Image
Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity,… — John Wanamaker Copy Share Image
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn… — Will Durant 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
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
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
Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced. — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“For the record, the proposal was just a courtesy. You would have been mine regardless. -KANE” — C.M. Owens Copy Share Image
A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops. — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
“But Johannes had said, "Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor… — Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
Offer your soul and wealth to your friend, offer your equity and fairness for your enemy, and offer your courtesy and charity… — Zahid Abas Copy Share Image
“I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you go out with someone and decide you don't want to see them again, do them the courtesy of saying, "Hey,… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
