"When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet……" — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host."
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
- 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