Discourtesy Quotes

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. (George Herbert)
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. View quote
Cass Sunstein
If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me. View quote
Thomas Harris
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère