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He who sows courtesy reaps friendship. -- Saint Basil
You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect. -- Lawrence Goldstone
Unfailing courtesy and willingness to be of service. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The utmost form of respect is to give sincerely of your presence. -- Mollie Marti
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood. -- Philip Sidney
We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth. -- Caitlin Moran
Enforced courtesy is worse than none. -- Rex Stout
Courtesy costs nothing, which makes it the ideal gift when you're as cheap as I am. -- Mark Lawrence
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
courtesy, it is also currency. It pays to be lovely to people. -- Janna Cachola
Respect is EARNED but honor is GIVEN. -- Craig Groeschel
The truest politeness comes of sincerity. -- Samuel Smiles
I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart. -- Robert Burns
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. -- Michel De Montaigne
When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short. -- Mason Cooley
Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends. -- James Thomas Fields
The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality. -- Judith Martin
Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment
no matter what happens. -- Emily Post
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses. -- Elsa Maxwell
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. -- Emily Post
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race. -- Mark Twain
Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people. -- Molly Ivins
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. -- Stanislaw Leszczynski
Always so very courteous. Lose courtesy, and you lose control; lose control and you lose yourself. -- Claire North
Karate begins and ends with courtesy. -- Gichin Funakoshi
Politeness is the flower of humanity. -- Joseph Joubert
Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good. -- David Chiles
the king of kind hearts and polite fellows -- Herman Melville
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. -- Jean De La Bruyere
Respect is earned. -- Steve Berry
A smile for death is the final courtesy. -- Jocelyne Saucier
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. -- E. V. Lucas
Be just to everyone and don't look for an honour greater than this! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Good manners warred with curiosity, and lost. -- Marie Brennan
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge. -- Frederick Lenz
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. -- Ambrose Bierce
The only true source of politeness is consideration. -- William Gilmore Simms
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. -- William Shakespeare
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. -- Madame De Stael
The poorest service is repaid with thanks. -- William Shakespeare
[ ... ]One pretends that manners are the formalisation of basic kindness and consideration, but a great deal of the time they're simply aesthetics dressed up as moral principles, aren't they? -- Zoe Heller
Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within. -- Jean De La Bruyere
Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way. -- Suzanne Woods Fisher
Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth. -- Samuel Johnson
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with? -- William Pitt, 1St Earl Of Chatham
I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy. -- Tamara Ireland Stone
Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense. -- Sydney Smith
Honourable is right. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. -- Bryant Mcgill
Honor is decency without vanity. -- Arthur Koestler
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness. -- William Butler Yeats
Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy. -- John Allen Fraser
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. -- Lord Chesterfield
But Johannes had said, Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David. -- Anne Holm
Good manners cost nothing -- E. Dantes
Respect is earned, not given -- Someone
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. -- Florence King
Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public ... -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important. -- Jessica Alba
Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it. -- Seneca The Younger
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others. -- Lord Chesterfield
If you can't manage courtesy, try silence. -- Jim Butcher
There is a nobility in the world of manners. -- Friedrich Schiller
dangerously polite. -- Agatha Christie
Fine manners are like personal beauty,
a letter of credit everywhere. -- C. A. Bartol
Manners are the ornament of action. -- Samuel Smiles
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it. -- Ben Jonson
You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you. -- Daniel Finkelstein
Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
As a person, I'm polite - I want to please. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close. -- Judith Martin
Other Courtesies have been -
Other Courtesy may be -
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry. -- Emily Dickinson
Common Courtesy, like common sense, does not require any level of education or status. Anyone and everyone can participate. But we need to remember we are not like cats with their kitty litter boxes, we are not born with this knowledge, we must be taught by someone. -- Mitzi Taylor
Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society. -- Lord Chesterfield
to be respected be respecting -- Himanshu Arora
Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important. -- Hal Duncan
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. -- Sydney Smith
Let kindness reveal your humanity. -- Jeffrey A. White
Dignified, like a guest. -- Laozi
Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves. -- John Calvin
The most elementary of good manners ... at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics. -- Laura Esquivel
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. -- Bryant H. Mcgill
You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure. -- Allan Lokos
Giving respect is an obligation, not a favor; it is an act of maturity, birthed in a profound understanding of God's good grace. -- Gary L. Thomas
Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous. -- Laura Fitzgerald
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
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
Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted. -- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. -- Charles Simmons
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else. -- Freya Stark
Dignity, always Dignity! -- Gene Kelly
