Courtesy QuotesEnjoy this collection of Courtesy Quotes. These Famous Quotes will enlighten and inspire... Courtesy Quotes: "Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are." - Author Unknown
"Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority." - David Hume
"No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little." - Author Unknown
"Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note." - Bernie Brillstein
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"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed." - Erastus Wiman "Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them." - Amy Vanderbilt "It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before." - F. Scott Fitzgerald "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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"Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident." - P.J. O'Rourke
"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart." - Henry Clay "Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense." - Sydney Smith
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"The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another." - George Bernard Shaw
"There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive." - Samuel Johnson
"Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courtesy Quotes: "All doors open to courtesy." - Thomas Fuller
"Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners." - Author Unknown "Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts." - Abel Stevens "There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. ‘Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night’s lodging. ‘Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." - St. Basil
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