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• Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

  Erastus Wiman

  Inspirational, Positive, Cost

  Erastus Wiman (2005). “Chances of Success: Episodes and Observations in the Life of a Busy Man”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Christopher Ricks

  Communication, Past, Community

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Thinking

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 2

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• A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.

  Andie MacDowell

  Country, Giving Up, Women

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• Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

  Joan M. Drury

  Revolution, Matter, Social

  Joan M. Drury (2000). “Those Jordan Girls”, Spinsters Ink Books

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• Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Heart, Sacrifice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Thankful

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• Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Family, Kindness

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• Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Grace, Trying

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

  William C. Menninger

  Inspirational, Success, Integrity

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• Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

  Edmund Burke

  Air, Law, Uniforms

  "Three Letters to a Member of Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" (1796 - 1797)

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• I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

  Khalil Gibran

  Believe, Tired, Humility

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• Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Cost

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• Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Kindness, Compassion

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• Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Relationship, Holmes

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.51, Reprint Services Corporation

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Courage, Gentleman

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

  Emily Post

  Disappointment, Demand, Guests

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.436, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Life, Motivational, Leadership

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

  John Wanamaker

  Flipping A Coin, Coins, Too Much

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• The greater man the greater courtesy.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Manners, Greater

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Last Tournament' (1859) l. 628

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• Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Senior, Remember, Respectful

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.46, Kodansha International

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• The grace of God is courtesy.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Grace, Grace Of God

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• The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

  Alfred the Great

  Men, He Man, Greater

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• Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2581, Delphi Classics

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• A man can suffocate on courtesy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men

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