Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers. — William Chillingworth Copy Share Image
In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it. — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to… — Robert Chambers Copy Share Image
Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air… — Caryll Houselander 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
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
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
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is… — Vera Nazarian 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
Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
I very much believe in values-based leadership, and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
“In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
