Courtesy Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee Download Open image “The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.” — Christian Nestell Bovee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Courtesies Courtesies Sweeten Courtesy Greater Life Small Small Courtesies Sweeten Life
“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great… — M.A.Kelty Copy Share Image
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.” — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person, — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly and wickedness… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable,… — David Paul Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“Sweet are the oases in Sahara; charming the isle-groves of August prairies; delectable pure faith amidst a thousand perfidies; but sweeter, still more charming,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Small things, these, you may think – trifling courtesies that are unimportant in the breathless rush of the world we live in today. Yet… — B.C. Stone Copy Share Image
“I cannot stress enough the perils of your friends marrying or becoming court inventors. One day you are all a society of outlaws, adventurous… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.” — Katrina Avilla Munichiello Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you! — Moliere Copy Share Image
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
