Courtesies Of Life Quotes

#1. Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

Laurence Sterne

#2. How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the deeper tragedies in which she must play her part alone, where no human aid is possible.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#3. The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#4. People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it's sunshine.

Kristen Stewart

#5. Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"
They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.

Sherwood Smith

#6. I am not a redhead, I'm a blonde.

Cynthia Nixon

#7. He ended up teaching middleschool art for a living. That was some soothing shit right there.

Scott Hawkins

#8. At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.

Peter Farb

#9. The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.

Laurence Sterne

#10. Everything is perfect.
Everything is fine.
The rules of life are made up.
The rules only exist in your mind.
Of course there may be courtesies
And closures and laws to abide,
But the zeal with which you play
Relies on where YOU draw the line

Jason Mraz

#11. When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Bryce Courtenay

#12. Parker and Hardison look like they're having a good time."
"I see," Nate said. "Should we be worried?

Greg Cox

#13. But the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.

Sarah Doudney

#14. People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

Keith Henson

#15. If you want to punish a sage lock him in the same room with a fool.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.

Robert Jordan

#17. Shawn Michaels - the greatest WWE champion of all time!

Vince McMahon

#18. Little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.

Julia McNair Wright

#19. I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

Patricia Clarkson

#20. I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey.

Charles Barkley

#21. Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of human development

Luciano Floridi

#22. Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?

Andrew Ashling