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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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• Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Opportunity, Wizards, Offers

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.56, Pottermore

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• I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

  Herman Melville

  Christian, Kindness, Trying

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.37, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Wales, Prince Hal

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1-2. Henry V".

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• When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  School, Self, People

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• The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Osbert Sitwell (1950). “Noble essences: a book of characters”

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• My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Jobs, Dedication, People

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.

  H. G. Wells

  Teaching, Islamic, Order

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• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Men, Evil

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 45

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• Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

  William Shakespeare

  Mountain, Caves, Fit

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.303, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Mind, Noble

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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• Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Winning, Perfect, May

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.228, Courier Corporation

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• Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

  Alexander Pope

  Book, Principles, Manners

  "The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author".

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• Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Passion, Loathing

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, Men, Thanks

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Friend, Reality, Praise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

  Louis Kronenberger

  Hysteria, People, Age

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• The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en mass, or for making overtures towards more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Party, Wine, Serious

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• Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Good Man, Aristocracy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.

  John A. Lejeune

  Military, Marine, Troops

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• One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

  Cullen Hightower

  Kindness, Civilization, Differences

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• Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

  James Thomas Fields

  Kindness, Giving, World

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• We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Growing Up, Kindness, Spring

  Jeremy Bentham (1834). “Deontology: or, The science of morality: in which the harmony and co-incidence of duty and self-interest, virtue and felicity, prudence and benevolence, are explained and exemplified”, p.131

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• Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Tyrants, Fine

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• Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

  Will Durant

  Learning, Player, Games

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