Courtesy Quotes · Page 9

Courtesy is simply doing unto others what you would like them to do unto you.

— Aristophanes

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

— John Wanamaker

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.

— Henry David Thoreau

The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with…

— Doug Stanhope

I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me.

— Stephenie Meyer

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend…

— Mitt Romney

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

— William Shakespeare

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has…

— Emily Post

Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…

— Louis Kronenberger

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition…

— Confucius

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in…

— Adam Grant

Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to…

— Michael Josephson

“Nice is a little word with a big meaning. How many times did your mother say, "Just be nice?" It's basic manners,…

— Susan C. Young

“Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so…

— Geoffrey Wood

Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though…

— Aravind Adiga

The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These…

— H. G. Wells

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance…

— Philip Gambone

He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting. “You need…

— Patricia Briggs

“Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at…

— Kent Nerburn

“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled…

— Anonymous

God will think about you and behave with you just as you think of His creations and behave with His created persons,…

— Farid

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

— William Shakespeare

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

— Piero Ferrucci

There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make…

— Lalah Hathaway

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

— James Thomas Fields

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

— Saadi

Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

— William Shakespeare

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For the record, the proposal was just a courtesy. You would have been mine regardless. -KANE”

— C.M. Owens

A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.

— John A. Lejeune

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom…

— Ouida

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

— Kelley Armstrong

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.

— Mark Dunn

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

— Michel de Montaigne