Courtesy Quotes - page 4

It is so easy a thing to give-only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive. (John Steinbeck)
Silence will create respect and dignity; justice and fairplay will bring more friends; benevolence and charity will enhance prestige and position; courtesy will draw benevolence; service of mankind will secure leadership and good words will overcome powerful enemies. View quote
Ali
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
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. View quote
Elizabeth Hardwick
I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit. View quote
Hedy Lamarr
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. View quote
Herman Melville
He loved his profession, he had a real sense of dedication to the administration of justice, he held his head high as a lawyer, he rendered and exacted courtesy, honor and straightforwardness at the Bar. He respected the judicial office deeply, demanded the highest standards of competence and disinterestedness and dignity, despised all political use of or trifling with judicial power, and had an affectionate regard for every man who filled the exacting prescription of the just judge. The law to him was like a religion, and its practice was more than a means of support; it was a mission. He was not always popular in his community, but he was respected. Unpopular minorities and individuals often found in him their only mediator and advocate. He was too independent to court the populace - he thought of himself as a leader and lawgiver, not a mouthpiece. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
The past is only partly irrecoverable. The clerisy should accord it at least as much courtesy as they offer to the future. View quote
Robertson Davies
Civility carries with it the essence of courtesy, politeness, and consideration of others. All of the education and accomplishments in the world will not count for much unless they are accompanied by marks of gentility, of respect for others, of going the extra mile. (Gordon B. Hinckley)
Hey Uncle Sam Put your name at the top of his list And the Statue of Liberty Started shaking her fist. And the eagle will fly Man, it's gonna be hell When you hear Mother Freedom Start ringing her bell And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue. View quote
Toby Keith
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment. View quote
Ilana Mercer
Like to a leafless tree, Dry river bed, or house in pathless waste, Is gentle blood that hath no courtesy. View quote
Francesco Berni
If Muslim people do not change their mind in spite of the changes of social conditions, and if we supplement Islamic courtesy and law without explaining and advertising real Islamic beliefs at the same time, then it is impossible to save the minds of the people. View quote
Ma Fuxiang
War is not a courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game. As it is now, war is the favourite pastime of the idle and frivolous. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Whatever good deeds have been done by me, those the people accept and those they follow. Therefore they have progressed and will continue to progress by being respectful to mother and father, respectful to elders, by courtesy to the aged and proper behavior towards Brahmans and ascetics, towards the poor and distressed, and even towards servants and employees. View quote
Ashoka
The same spirit of intolerance was shown by the Jesuit fathers in the Moghul court. The Emperor Akbar took great interest in religious discussions and summoned to the court scholarly Jesuit missionaries from Goa. They were received with great courtesy, but the free discussions in the Ibadat Khana (House of Worship), where the debates on religion took place, displeased the Jesuit fathers greatly. Their intolerance of other religions and their arrogant attitude towards the exponents of other faiths were unwelcome also to the Emperor. So the missionaries had to leave the capital greatly disappointed. View quote
Akbar
It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries? (George Meredith)
I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved. View quote
Deborah Harkness
Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here. View quote
Linwood Barclay
I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness. View quote
Louise Penny