Quotes
Quotes about Courtesy
High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
The mirror of all courtesy.
I am the very pink of courtesy.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
The greater man the greater courtesy.
For courtesy wins woman all as well
As valor may.
Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
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.
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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.
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
When a language createsâas it doesâa community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
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.
And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dressed myself in such humility That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts, Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths Even in the presence of the crowned king.
