Bedrock Quote by Joan M. Drury

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

— Aristophanes

An excess of courtesy is discourtesy

— Japanese Proverb

To be courtesy , is to be willing to be taken advantage of …

— Anonymous

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

— Baltasar Gracian