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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. -- Saint Basil
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. -- Jacques Maritain
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with. -- John Wanamaker
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought. -- Margaret Chase Smith
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
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also. -- Melissa Etheridge
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
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. -- Fran Lebowitz
Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. -- Honore de Balzac
All doors open to courtesy. -- Thomas Fuller
Courtesy is a lady's armor. -- Sophie Turner
The grace of God is courtesy. -- Hilaire Belloc
Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages. -- Baltasar Gracian
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. -- Madame de Stael
Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all. -- Walter Russell
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop. -- Lewis Carroll
Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth -- Samuel Johnson
Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth. -- Samuel Johnson
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that. -- Lillian Hellman
Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy. -- Maya Angelou
Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain. -- Georges Duhamel
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes. -- Thomas Carlyle
Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry. -- J. K. Rowling
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone. -- Brian Tracy
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war. -- Confucius
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends. -- James Thomas Fields
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time. -- Gustav Stresemann
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries? -- George Meredith
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. -- Francis Bacon
Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry. -- Emily Dickinson
Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens. -- Emily Post
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. -- Henry Clay
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. -- Alexander Pope
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
Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous. -- Joan M. Drury
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named. -- John Milton
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. -- Emily Post
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? -- Nelson Mandela
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. -- Thomas J. Watson
Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
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. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways -- Franz Boas
Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?''Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,' said Dumbledore. 'Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry." -- J. K. Rowling
Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?' 'Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,' said Dumbledore. 'Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry. -- J. K. Rowling
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... 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. -- Michel de Montaigne
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe. -- James Thomas Fields
Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person. -- Mas Oyama
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. -- E. V. Lucas
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. -- Bryant H. McGill
Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you. -- Yasmina Reza
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. -- Khaleda Zia
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. -- Mercy Otis Warren
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. -- W. C. Fields
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. -- George Santayana
The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones. -- Serge Schmemann
I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town. -- Luke Harding
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. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. -- Xun Zi
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent. -- Maya Angelou
Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected. -- Grover Norquist
It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices. -- Kirk Cameron
Less of your courtesy and more of your purse -- Proverb
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy -- George Herbert
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels you must have some of your ow -- John Wanamaker
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade -- George Eliot
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment -- William Shakespeare
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 -- St. Basil
A man can suffocate on courtesy. -- Henry David Thoreau
An excess of courtesy is discourtesy -- Japanese Proverb
Karate begins and ends with courtesy. -- Gichin Funakoshi
The greater man the greater courtesy. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship. -- Saint Basil
Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous -- Laura Fitzgerald
true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed. -- Julia McNair Wright
Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong. -- Henry Newbolt
The outward expression of empathy is courtesy. -- Stewart Butterfield
If you can't manage courtesy, try silence. -- Jim Butcher
The greater person is one of courtesy. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The greater the man the greater the courtesy. -- Alfred the Great
Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. -- William Shakespeare
Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy. -- Philip Sidney
When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short. -- Mason Cooley
Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei. -- Gichin Funakoshi
Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy. -- Elizabeth Bowen
The first point of courtesy must always be truth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lack of courtesy is an extreme form of disrespect -- Khaleel Datay
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Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy. -- John Allen Fraser
High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. -- Philip Sidney
In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness. -- William Penn
Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy -- Owen Feltham
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood. -- Philip Sidney
Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance. -- Benjamin Franklin
Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety. -- Idries Shah
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love. -- Saint Basil
Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them. -- Matthew Pearl
Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors. -- Robert Spector
The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty. -- Karel Capek
The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties. -- Henry David Thoreau
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. -- Lynne Truss
A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops. -- John A. Lejeune
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it. -- Ben Jonson
Things we carry from home shows where we hail from ~ courtesy, respect, and gratitude -- Rupali Desai

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