If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. — Erastus Wiman Copy Share Image
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
“genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace,… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
“You are a worthy competitor, the best rival I ever encountered, it is an honour to be your opponent, you are better… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason… — Anonymous 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
Behind the fury, he was tired. He was tired of being hauled around and shoved into a little room. He was tired… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Several years ago we added “my pleasure” to the manners chart after we read the book How Did You Do It, Truett?… — Jill Duggar Copy Share Image
Gandhiji would always offer full details of his plans and movements to the police, thereby saving them a great deal of trouble.… — Reginald Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
