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An excess of courtesy is discourtesy

— Japanese Proverb

Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

— Yasmina Reza

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

— Honore de Balzac

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

— Joan M. Drury

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

— Aristophanes

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art…

— Bryant H. McGill

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and…

— Michel de Montaigne

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

— Kenneth Clark

To be courtesy , is to be willing to be taken advantage of .....

— Anonymous

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...

— Stella Gibbons

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

— Thomas Carlyle