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Tag Name "Courtesy" (160)

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Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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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
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Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Courtesy is a waste of time it weakens you and undermines you.
Yasmina Reza
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de Balzac
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Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.
James Thomas Fields
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
Michel de Montaigne
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Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.
Lewis Carroll
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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Bryant H. McGill
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Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
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Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
Thomas Carlyle
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Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.
Walter Russell
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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
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Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
John Wanamaker
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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
Elizabeth Bowen
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The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.
Alveda King
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Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
Erastus Wiman
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Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
Baltasar Gracian
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The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
Fannie Flagg
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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
Baruch Spinoza
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Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.
Frederick Lenz
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