COURTESY

Related Subjects: Amiability, Breeding, Ceremony, Chivalry, Gentleman, Good Humor, Grace, Hospitality, Manners, Refinement, Service

1. The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.—C. N. BOVEE
   

2. Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
   

3. The courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart. It is the picayune compliments which are the most appreciated; far more than the double ones we sometimes pay.—HENRY CLAY
   

4. We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

5. The whole of heraldry and chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could add.EMERSON
   

6. Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.—EMERSON
   

7. How sweet and gracious, even in common speech,
   Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy!—J. T. FIELDS, Courtesy
   

8. As the sword of the best tem­pered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.—THOMAS FULLER
   

9. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.—GOETHE
   

10. There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a
    deep moral foundation.—GOETHE

11. The constant interchange of those thousand little courtesies which imperceptibly sweeten life, has a happy effect upon the features, and spreads a mellow evening charm over the wrinkles of old age.—WASHINGTON IRVING,
    Wolfert's Roost
    

12. He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

13. When saluted with a saluta­tion, salute the person with a better salutation, or at least return the same, for God taketh account of all things.—The Koran
    

14. Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight and lead on to further intimacy and friendship.—MONTAIGNE, Essays

15. He may freely receive courtesies that knows how to requite them.—Proverb
    

16. In courtesy, rather pay a penny too much than too little.—Proverb
    

17. Less of your courtesy and more of your purse.—Proverb

18. It is a rank courtesy, when a man is forced to give thanks for what is his own.—Proverb
    

19. Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue.—Proverb
    

20. Courtesy on one side can never last long.—Proverb
    

21. A civil denial is better than a rude grant.—Proverb
    

22. Too much courtesy, too much craft.—Proverb
    

23. A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed.—Proverb
    

24. All doors open to courtesy.—Proverb
    

25. I am the very pink of courtesy.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

26. Keep a good tongue in your head.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

27. A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
    

28. Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.—STERNE, A Sentimental Journey
    

29. Of Courtesy, it is much less
    Than Courage of Heart or Holiness,
    Yet in my walks it seems to me
    That the Grace of God is in Courtesy.—TARKINGTON, Courtesy
    

30. The greater man the greater courtesy.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
    

31. For courtesy wins woman all as well
    As valor may.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King