Courtesy Quotes

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  • I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I'll do that.' She's all about courtesy.

    Queens   Couple   Writing  
  • Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

    'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 2
  • The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

  • 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.

  • Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

    Siege   Youth   Courtesy  
    Coventry Patmore (1853). “Tamerton Church-tower: And Other Poems”, p.85
  • My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

    Brother   Dad   Nice  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

  • Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

  • A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold.

  • 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.

  • Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.

    Humble   Men   Names  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 204), 1895.
  • He who plants kindness gathers love.

  • A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

    Gratitude   Men   Needs  
    Ben Jonson (1995). “Poetaster”, p.62, Manchester University Press
  • The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

    Long   Germany   Courtesy  
  • We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

  • When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

  • I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.

    Mother   Strong   Stupid  
  • [He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.

    Stupid   Cost   Littles  
  • Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

    Sight   Doors   Grace  
    Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.330
  • Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

    'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 4, l. [63]
  • Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

  • I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

    Philip Massinger, John Ford (1840). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an Introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.189
  • Mike Pence came out and said this was a courtesy call, then Donald Trump a few hours later went on Twitter, as is his wont, and essentially linked the call to Taiwan with a whole series of things he doesn't like about Chinese economic and foreign policies and implied that the U.S. views of the status of Taiwan are now up for negotiation, that he wants them to be part of a broader negotiation with China about a whole series of economic and foreign policy issues. So, we just don't really know what exactly they're planing to do with this.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

  • Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

  • Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

    John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière
  • There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

    Order   Self   Habit  
    First annual message, 1881.
  • 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.

    Reader's Digest, Volume 68, 1956.
  • Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

    Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”
  • Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors.

    Robert Spector, Patrick D. McCarthy (2012). “The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: The Handbook For Becoming the "Nordstrom" of Your Industry”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons
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