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Courtesy Quotes by James Thomas Fields
- How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome…
- Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.
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
- A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the… — Osbert Sitwell