Top 27 Quotes About Courtesy And Politeness
#1. My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#2. No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.
B. Traven
#3. I probably misunderstand misunderstanding itself
Kenneth Koch
#4. You're going to go on dreaming and imagining and making up stories about me as you walk along the street, and pretending that we're riding in a forest, or landing on an island - '
'No. I shall think of you ordering dinner, paying bills, doing the accounts, showing old ladies the relics -
Virginia Woolf
#5. It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Khaleda Zia
#6. I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.
Hamish Bowles
#8. I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
Ice Cube
#9. Think positive and be a half full glass not half empty glass person. Positive thoughts work so much better than negative ones
Raven McAllan
#10. That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?
Chris Elliott
#11. Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
Baltasar Gracian
#12. About your easy heads my prayers
I said with syllables of clay.
What gift, I asked, shall I bring now
Before I weep and walk away?
Take, they replied, the oak and laurel.
Take our fortune of tears and live
Like a spendthrift lover. All we ask
Is the one gift you cannot give.
Tana French
#13. My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
Gemma Chan
#14. courtesy, it is also currency. It pays to be lovely to people.
Janna Cachola
#15. I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz
#17. I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
Theodore Roosevelt
#18. Politeness and courtesy are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.
John Wooden
#19. Politeness. Obedience. Loyalty. Intelligence. Courtesy. Efficiency.
Arundhati Roy
#20. A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant McGill
#21. What do you live for? Would you die for it?
Tablo
#22. Present company excluded, this looked to be the most pleasant detention ever experienced by mankind. Further proof that librarians should run the world-or a least be in charge of detention at Bathory High.
Heather Brewer
#23. The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
Dumas Malone
#24. But Johannes had said, Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.
Anne Holm
#25. It was as though all the most fundamentalist people of all three religions had descended upon the Old City, leaving no room for even simple things like politeness and common courtesy. There was no love in the city of God.
Jared Brock
#26. Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down.
Lana Del Rey
#27. Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?
Andrew Ashling
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