"Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the…" — Honore de Balzac
"Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness."
More Courtesy Quotes
- 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
- 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
- I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of… — William Shakespeare