Air Quote by James Thomas Fields

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

— James Thomas Fields

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

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Thomas Carlyle

“genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action, in which…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

— Joseph Joubert

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

— Jacques Maritain

Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our…

— Ben Jonson

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, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning…

— Michel de Montaigne

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

— Honore de Balzac

Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.

— Walter Russell