Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
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.
Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.
Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.
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.
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.
Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
The greater man the greater courtesy.
Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors.
The grace of God is courtesy.
The greater the man the greater the courtesy.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
A man can suffocate on courtesy.
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