Courtesy Quotes

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.

All doors open to courtesy.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

The grace of God is courtesy.