"Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because……" — Elwyn Brooks White

More Courtesy Quotes

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• 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… — Saint Basil
• We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong. — Bono
• There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had… — Willa Cather
• We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. — Winston Churchill
• Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. — Jean Cocteau
• The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to… — Osbert Sitwell
• There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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