Courtesy Quotes

316 quotes by 227 authors

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination… — Michel de Montaigne
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The first point of courtesy must always be truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages. — Baltasar Gracian
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. — Lord Chesterfield
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
The greater man the greater courtesy. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of… — Louis Kronenberger
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social… — Brooks Atkinson
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a… — Edmund Burke
So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. — William Shakespeare
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite. — Alexander Pope
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to… — Elwyn Brooks White

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