Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Don't lead someone on. If you like someone, then tell them. If you just want to be friends, then don't make them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
“ 'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.' ” — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Keep courtesy and consideration of others foremost in your mind at home and away. — John Wooden 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
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to… — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it,… — Esme Raji Codell 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
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel 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
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Mike Pence came out and said this was a courtesy call, then Donald Trump a few hours later went on Twitter, as… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs… — Anonymous 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
“[Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard] would not schedule any Cabinet meetings in the evening because he'd previously observed as a minister… — Fleur Anderson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If i had known... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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