Courtesy Quotes

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

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.

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

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.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

The grace of God is courtesy.

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

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.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

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

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

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

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

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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.

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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