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Courtesy Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.
- To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
- True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
More Courtesy Quotes
- The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking… — Michel de Montaigne
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon
- Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac
- A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy… — Saint Basil
- There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened… — Willa Cather
- We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero