Quotes: Courtesy

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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

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.

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

The grace of God is courtesy.

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher’s instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

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.