Courtesy Quotes - Page 14

• Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

  William Congreve

  Passion, Men, May

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.208

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• Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

  Henri Rousseau

  Fashion, Law, Manners

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• It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Taste, Easy

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• The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Holmes, Relation, Tact

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• It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.

  John Paul Jones

  Mean, Gentleman, Honor

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• Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are richly fed on compliments just as our bodies are on whole wheat bread.

  Edward M Hays

  Simple, Expression, Behaviour

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• War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Lying, Games

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.

  Mary Schmich

  Phones, Cells, Skills

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• There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.

  Lalah Hathaway

  Credit, Sometimes, Hard

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• I hate feeling late. Someone else has the courtesy and respect to show up on time, and when I'm late, it's like telling them, "I don't respect you." Worst feeling in the world. It makes you really reflect on your priorities.

  Matthew Moy

  Hate, Priorities, Feelings

  "Matthew Moy from 2 Broke Girls: Comedy, Creativity, and Courtesy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

  Susanna Moodie

  Country, Native American, Men

  Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley

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• Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

  Edwin Muir

  Patience, Time, Kindness

  1949 The Labyrinth,'The Good Town'.

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• I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Discovery, Dragons, Discipline

  "What is Philosophy?". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1964.

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• There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Kindness, Home, Heart

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.766

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• It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

  Theodor Adorno

  Believe, Proust, Embarrassment

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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• 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.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Humble, Men, Names

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 204), 1895.

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• 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

  Ethical Standards, Good Man, Way

  Foreword to "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Prayer, Thinking, Admitting

  "A Quiet Life". Book by Kenzaburo Oe, 1990.

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• Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.

  Ilana Mercer

  Rights, People, Quota

  "Liberty and the Civil Wrongs Act". www.wnd.com. April 02, 2010.

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• Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

  Saadi

  Sweet, Elephants, Hair

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• Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors.

  Robert Spector

  Believe, Vendors, Nordstrom

  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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• Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Hard Times

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• Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.

  Matthew Pearl

  Funny, People, Eternity

  Matthew Pearl (2011). “The Dante Club: Historical Mystery”, p.31, Random House

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• From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

  Confucius

  Ambition, Men, Example

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.1142, Delphi Classics

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• Other Courtesies have been -
  Other Courtesy may be -
  We commend ourselves to thee
  Paragon of Chivalry.

  Emily Dickinson

  May, Chivalry, Thee

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.505, Harvard University Press

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