Top 19 Discourtesy Quotes
#1. I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
Thomas Harris
#2. As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#3. Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness ... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. To foresee pleasures makes anybody a poet ... to seek pleasure makes a hero of anyone: you open yourself so entirely to fate.
Elizabeth Bowen
#5. I'm engaged in the dance of the ages and the search for a song to go with it. Though Templeton's A Veritable Smorgasbord is a well-deserving classic, it's a stanza too short for my morphing existence. So I write my own.
Chila Woychik
#6. Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several
from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
Jean De La Bruyere
#7. Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.
Paulo Coelho
#8. Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.
Leonard Maltin
#9. Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
Olympia Dukakis
#10. All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.
John Howard Griffin
#11. Many people, if they were to treat other people as they treat their spouses, would soon have not a friend in the world. Why it is assumed that marriage is more impervious to the effects of discourtesy than friendship, I do not know ...
Jo Coudert
#12. You can't make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
Warsan Shire
#13. The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
William Hurt
#14. Well, sometimes we do actually have to get up early, but a man will always trade sleep for sex.
Jerry Seinfeld
#15. 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.
Cass Sunstein
#16. When in Italy, you should meet Italians.
Isa Miranda
#17. So I find words I never thought to speak
In streets I never thought I should revisit
When I left my body on a distant shore.
T. S. Eliot
#18. Life is just a series of dumb decisions and indecisions and coincidences that we choose to ascribe meaning to.
Nicola Yoon
#19. Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
George Herbert
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