"There is a courtesy of the heart;..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
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More on 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.”
“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.”
“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”