Courtesy Quotes
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. Fields
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
Yami Gautam
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
Walt Mossberg
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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 Satoro
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
William Penn
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You can never have too much sky.
Sandra Cisneros
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Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
William Congreve
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If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.
Mary Doria Russell
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There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.
Lalah Hathaway
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The thorny point
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred
And know some nurture.
William Shakespeare
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Willa Cather
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The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.
Brian Tracy
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I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if it causes anyone to faint – or start a riot."She laughed under her breath, and turned to go, stuffing her hands into her pockets and praying her fingers didn't fall off on the way home."Here," Kavill said, and she turned to find a pair of exquisite dove – gray suede gloves in his hands. "On the house. For many years of loyal patronage." His face bore its usual mask of polite calm and courtesy, but his brown eyes were bright. "And a gift – for a year spent without any gloves at all.
Sarah J. Maas
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
William Shakespeare
