Courtesy Quote by Cornelia Otis Skinner

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

— Aristophanes

Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean…

— Mas Oyama

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 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

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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 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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts…

— B. C. Forbes

An excess of courtesy is discourtesy

— Japanese Proverb

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

— John Wanamaker