Courtesy Quotes
Courtesy Quotes
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Amy Vanderbilt
An excess of courtesy is discourtesy.
Anonymous
Courtesy is simply doing unto others what you would like them to do unto you.
Anonymous
Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.
Anonymous
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Baltasar Gracian
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
Bill Kelly
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.
Bryant H. McGill
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
Bryant McGill
A good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good.
David Chiles
Good manners are ageless, priceless and classless.
Diana Mather
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
Erastus Wiman
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana
Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honoré de Balzac
Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
J.K. Rowling
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
John Vanbrugh
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
John Wanamaker
Courtesy is sometimes imperceptible, but its absence turns out to be poignant.
Julita Davies
Lack of courtesy is an extreme form of disrespect.
Khaleel Datay
Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.
Lewis Carroll
The greater person is one of courtesy.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
Lucas
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Madame De Stael
No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
Saint Basil
Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.
Samuel Johnson
Courtesy is a lady’s armor.
Sophie Turner
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.
Yukteswar Giri