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• No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

  B. Traven

  Men, Use, Working Conditions

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• The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

  Fannie Flagg

  Lines, Behavior, Accepted

  Fannie Flagg (1999). “Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!”, Random House LLC

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• Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, ‘’does’’ have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—"we" entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually run America now.

  Aravind Adiga

  Running, Business, Drinking

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Christopher Moore

  Cheer, Men, Self

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• Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Passion, Loathing

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, Men, Thanks

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

  Edith Hamilton

  Love, Art, Civilization

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• 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.

  E. B. White

  Numbers, People, Individual

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.93, Cornell University Press

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• To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

  Alexander Pope

  Ears, Hell, Manners

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 149

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• Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Defense, Manners, Ceremony

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  Breathing, House, Way

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale”, p.87

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• The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en mass, or for making overtures towards more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Party, Wine, Serious

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• Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

  Louis Kronenberger

  Hysteria, People, Age

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• I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Funny, Wall, Flower

  Speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California. "The Event Makers I've Known". Book by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161, 2012.

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• When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Friend, Reality, Praise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.

  Judith Martin

  Humanity, Ordinary, Use

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

  Owen Feltham

  Charity, Alms, Duty

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• I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Hurt, Believe, Civilization

  E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Dating, Encounters

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.523, Dell

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• Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Strong, Hate, Sacrifice

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.138, Oxford University Press

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• As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying it on no principle of justice or honor, no usage of civilized nations, no precept of courtesy or humanity, have been infringed.

  James Madison

  War, Justice, Humanity

  James Madison, Robert Allen Rutland (2008). “The Papers of James Madison: 8 February-24 October 1813”

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• Karate begins and ends with courtesy.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Karate, Ends

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• Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this rule is: "Do unto others as they do unto you"; because if you "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and they, in turn, treat you badly, it goes against human nature to continue to treat them with consideration. You should do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the wrath they deserve.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Wrath, Satanic, Golden

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

  Jim Butcher

  Silence, Trying, Manage

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.153, Penguin

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• Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Honor, Should

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