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Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong. Henry Newbolt

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Michel de Montaigne

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

Sean Astin

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Khaleda Zia

All doors open to courtesy.

Thomas Fuller

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

Henry Newbolt

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.

Robert Chambers

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Theodore Roosevelt

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

Adam Grant

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.

Cass Sunstein

The grace of God is courtesy.

Hilaire Belloc

I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

Hedy Lamarr

Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.

Yami Gautam

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.

Kent McCord

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.

Linwood Barclay

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

E. V. Lucas

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

John Wanamaker

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honore de Balzac

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

I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved.

Deborah Harkness

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 Kuang

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

In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.

Maryanne Trump Barry

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

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

George Santayana

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

Philip Massinger

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

Peter Arnett

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

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain

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