Courtesy Quotes
Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.
Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.
There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
BTW, the roach's name is Max (courtesy of Brianna, "because of I had a puppy, I'd name him Max").
When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow 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.
Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
People who treat waitresses or waiters rudely - or taxi drivers - I have very little tolerance for those people. They work really hard. They deserve courtesy and respect.
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.
Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.
Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.
A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
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.
Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.
