Courtesy Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

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.

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.

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.

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.

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

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

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

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

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.

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.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.