There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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.
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.
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.
You can never have too much money.
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.
You can never have too much sky.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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.
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.
If i had known... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer.
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
You can never have too much, butter.
Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
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