Gracious Courtesy Quotes

#1. The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and chequered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture.

John R.W. Stott

#3. Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

Matthieu Ricard

#4. Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

Allison Anders

#5. The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

William Shakespeare

#6. The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#7. How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

James Thomas Fields

#8. Somehow, having a deer preside over the ceremony of a werewolf and a girl seems oddly appropriate.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.

Marcel Proust

#10. The woman had thick plastic glasses and looked up at them, eyes large as eggs behind the lenses, and asked, "Jeez, who got murdered?

John Sandford