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Tag Name "Courtly" (6)

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Courtly manners are contagious they are caught at Versailles.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.
James Fitzjames Stephen
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The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
William Hazlitt
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I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.
Janice Galloway
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We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.
Thomas Paine