Courtesy Quotes

Please proceed, Governor.

Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not--

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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

We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.

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

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

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.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.