Courtesies Quotes

#1. A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.

Mas Oyama

#2. Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

William Shakespeare

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Oh, the things she would say if she could--but it's a minefield of courtesies and manners, this dying business.

Jess Walter

#6. Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

M.A.Kelty

#7. No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

Owen Feltham

#11. Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

#12. Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

John Wanamaker

#13. The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person,

Nelson Mandela

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

#15. From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

Confucius

#16. I think a platform is missing its go-go dancer, Sabine. Fey's brutal tone cut through our courtesies.

Andrea Cremer

#17. Fortune, in fact, is a pestilent shrew, and, withal, an inexorable creditor; and though for a time she may be all smiles and courtesies, and indulge us in long credits, yet sooner or later she brings up her arrears with a vengeance, and washes out her scores with our tears.

Washington Irving

#18. Yet he could scarcely tell Lord Mormont that it was another man's sword he dreamt of ... "I want no courtesies either," Mormont said,

George R R Martin

#19. Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

Robin Hobb

#20. Other Courtesies have been -
Other Courtesy may be -
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry.

Emily Dickinson

#21. I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

Karen Marie Moning

#22. 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

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

Robert Jordan

#24. Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy!

Edmond Rostand

#25. Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.

Michael Josephson

#26. Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are richly fed on compliments just as our bodies are on whole wheat bread.

Edward M Hays

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

Andrew Ashling

#28. 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

#29. We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

Woodrow Wilson

#31. We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.

Allen West

#32. Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.

Michael Josephson

#33. All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

John Howard Griffin

#34. I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

Philip Massinger