Common Courtesy Quotes

• Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.

  Frank Pittman

  Relationship, Hurt, Play

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• Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

  Tom Baker

  Giving, Feelings, Common

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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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• He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

  Myles Munroe

  Beautiful, Character, Men

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship”, p.69, Destiny Image Publishers

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• He who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Dating, Encounters

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.523, Dell

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• Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Common, Courtesy, Drains

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.77, Vintage Canada

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• How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

  James Thomas Fields

  Sweet, Flower, Men

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• If you go out on a date, for the first date, a guy should pay, a guy should be respectful and, you know, I'm not saying roll out a red carpet, but, like, open the door and just be polite and just have common courtesy. I don't think that's too much to ask.

  Carly Aquilino

  Thinking, Doors, Guy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

  Anthony Geary

  Thinking, People, Why Not

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• In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.

  William Poundstone

  Art, Crazy, Common Sense

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• My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.

  Diana Trilling

  Careers, Arrogant, May

  Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

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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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