Best 133 quotes in «courtesy quotes» category

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

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.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.

Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.

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

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

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

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei.

I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me.

Karate begins and ends with courtesy.

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

Love may fail, but #‎ courtesy will prevail.

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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