Top Courtesy Quotes

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that f...

Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow i...

Courtesy Definition

(n.) Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.

(n.) An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.

(n.) Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy.

(n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees.

(v. i.) To make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes.

(v. t.) To treat with civility.

Though he was her enemy, he treated her with unfailing courtesy.

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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

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

What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with...

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it.

Liking me is optional. . .Respecting me is not!

Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and m...

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

I cannot imagine a truly beautiful world without courtesy being integral to its culture.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.