Top 100 Quotes About Courtesy
#1. The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen
he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.
Susanna Moodie
#3. If you saw a bullet
hit a Bird - and he told you
he wasn't shot - you might weep
at his courtesy, but you would
certainly doubt his word -
One drop more from the gash
that stains your Daisy's
bosom - then would you believe?
Emily Dickinson
#4. Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Zi
#6. Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#7. Harsha Bhogle is always politically correct and keeps praising Indian players, but he doesn't extend the same courtesy to Ganguly. Sarcasm is Bhogle's favourite weapon.
Saptarshi Sarkar
#8. Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life
Rex Stout
#9. The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#10. A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
Ben Jonson
#11. but the first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first. And that includes after sex, marriage, or death for that matter. This courtesy is not reciprocated.
Ben Aaronovitch
#13. The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#14. There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.
Chester A. Arthur
#15. Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.
Lord Chesterfield
#16. Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.
Maya Angelou
#19. His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
Evelyn Waugh
#20. If you go out with someone and decide you don't want to see them again, do them the courtesy of saying, "Hey, I had a nice time, but I don't think things are going to work out between us." Only you can help fight ghosting.
Mallory Ortberg
#21. Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.
Frank Pittman
#22. The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none but his whisperers.
George R R Martin
#23. You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog.
COURTESY VIOLATION-RESPONSE MUTED-VIOLATION LOGGED
Ernest Cline
#24. I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity,
Just hope the Big Man show me some courtesy
Nas
#25. So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.
William Shakespeare
#26. In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.
David Mamet
#27. If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within.
Mencius
#28. courtesy, it is also currency. It pays to be lovely to people.
Janna Cachola
#30. Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.
Lewis Carroll
#34. I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.
Myrtle Reed
#35. 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
#36. High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
Philip Sidney
#37. Courtesy costs nothing, which makes it the ideal gift when you're as cheap as I am.
Mark Lawrence
#38. A young women asked Lee what he would do. Lee replied, "I shall welcome him into my home, show him all the courtesy which is due from one gentlemen to another, and try to do everything in my power to make his stay agreeable.
Clint Johnson
#39. Angus thought about this. She was right. That was why our national conversation was so bad. Courtesy had been abandoned in favour of the put-down, the attack, the calculated sound bite. What sort of national conversation was that? The answer came to him immediately: none.
Alexander McCall Smith
#41. I dressed in another new outfit courtesy of the guys, and which I didn't argue about given they kept
destroying my clothes in their eagerness to claim me. Ain't love grand?
Eve Langlais
#42. 'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'
Matthew Pearl
#43. (Photo by Edwin Bonde, June 24, 1945, courtesy Alan Bonde)
Flint Whitlock
#44. 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
#46. Genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action, in which generosity of conduct is expressed. It reveals the man himself and has no ulterior purpose.
Rabindranath Tagore
#47. You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
Banksy
#48. When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.
Mason Cooley
#49. I hate feeling late. Someone else has the courtesy and respect to show up on time, and when I'm late, it's like telling them, "I don't respect you." Worst feeling in the world. It makes you really reflect on your priorities.
Matthew Moy
#50. Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.
Glen Duncan
#52. There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.
Melissa Etheridge
#53. Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.
Henry Newbolt
#54. Because I cannot flatter and look fair,
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy.
William Shakespeare
#55. Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend.
Claudia Jones
#56. Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.
Benjamin Franklin
#57. I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.
Louise Penny
#58. Common Courtesy, like common sense, does not require any level of education or status. Anyone and everyone can participate. But we need to remember we are not like cats with their kitty litter boxes, we are not born with this knowledge, we must be taught by someone.
Mitzi Taylor
#59. What barely seemed to register with him was that those regular people were earning large sums of money off him, off the Dutchman with his summer home and his money, and it was in part for that reason that they continued to exercise a modicum of courtesy.
Herman Koch
#60. Forty minutes later, my hatred for field hockey was in full bloom, courtesy of Nikki. Whoever thought it was a good idea to combine Tag with wooden golf clubs and a rodent-size ball should be beaten senseless.
K.R. Conway
#61. There just seems to be ... I don't know, such a lack of courtesy. A lack of respect between people in general and men and women in particular. Everywhere
Evangeline Anderson
#62. He was a strange mixture of good and bad, of luxury and industry, courtesy and arrogance. In leisure he was self-indulgent, but full of vigour on service. His outward behaviour was praiseworthy, though ill was spoken of his private life.
Tacitus
#63. It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
Mercy Otis Warren
#64. Power tastes best when sweetened by courtesy.
-Roose Bolton
George Martin
#66. So you're a fellow mercenary, then."
"Does this mean you'll afford me some professional courtesy?"
"Don't ask for that. All it means is that you might get to face the person who kills you ... But only if it's convenient.
Howard Tayler
#67. New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
Colson Whitehead
#68. It really is amazing how some young people feel that short stature and small minds are a sign of superiority. I wonder what ever happened to decency and courtesy?
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#69. The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
Erastus Wiman
#71. If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.
Robert Chambers
#72. Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.
Joan M. Drury
#73. BTW, the roach's name is Max (courtesy of Brianna, "because of I had a puppy, I'd name him Max").
Rachel Renee Russell
#74. Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There
David Weber
#75. The conduct of some professed Christians is so lacking in kindness and courtesy that their good is evil spoken of.
Ellen G. White
#76. No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#77. Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.
Marvin J. Ashton
#78. We've piled his plate high with shit," Fox conceded. "And not even tied a bib around his neck," Kaye added. "Is your afternoon grilling to be courtesy of a woman called Stoddart?
Ian Rankin
#79. What to one person is common courtesy is to another tender words of life - and by the same token, what one person intends to show as great affection may be to his beloved an irrelevant show of frivolousness compared to the kindness of simply doing the laundry sometimes.
Anna Broadway
#81. Politeness and courtesy are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.
John Wooden
#82. There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.
Frederick William Robertson
#83. I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town.
Luke Harding
#84. Politeness. Obedience. Loyalty. Intelligence. Courtesy. Efficiency.
Arundhati Roy
#85. No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
Bryant McGill
#86. Therefore flee the company of childish people. Greet them, when you meet, with smiles That keep on terms of common courtesy, Without inviting intimate relations.
Santideva
#87. With perfect and unyielding faith,
With steadfastness, respect, and courtesy,
With modesty and conscientiousness,
Work calmly for the happiness of others.
Santideva
#88. Kindness is strength, courtesy is power.
T.A. Uner
#89. The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
Gustav Stresemann
#90. We have gone from holding the door out of courtesy to standing before it out of obliviousness.
John Dickerson
#91. The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
Karel Capek
#93. Then he folded his arms on his chest, so his biceps strained at the sleeves of his t-shirt, courtesy of the arm curl machine.
Jennifer Echols
#94. How are you, it wasn't a courtesy, it was an existential question.
Gillian Flynn
#95. The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.
Brian Tracy
#96. Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.
Dean Koontz
#97. Still, when someone who is mistreated in their home travels very far and under horrible conditions to get to yours, shouldn't you at least offer them shelter and something to eat and drink until they sort things out? It seems like common courtesy to me.
Meg Cabot
#98. He already decided she was marrying him no matter what. Informing her that they were getting married was just a courtesy
R.L. Mathewson
#99. Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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John Le Carre
