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Tag Name "Courtesy" (216)

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Men's evil manners live in brass their virtues we write in water.
William Shakespeare
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Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.
William Shakespeare
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The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.
William Shakespeare
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My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
William Shakespeare
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.
Abraham Lincoln
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A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
Jenny Offill
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
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Politics is a war of causes a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
Woodrow Wilson
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.
Walter Russell
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O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J. Watson
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The media is telling you who Donald Trump is and what he's saying and what he's doing, courtesy of anonymous leaks.
Rush Limbaugh
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The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.
Nelson Mandela
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Courtesy is a waste of time it weakens you and undermines you.
Yasmina Reza
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
Philip Sidney
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Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: See how I love you.
Caryll Houselander
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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
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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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When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Christopher Ricks
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If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.
Piero Ferrucci
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When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.
Laozi
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