All doors open to courtesy.


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


Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.


Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.


He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.


His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.


If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.


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


It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.


It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.


Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.


Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.


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.


Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.


Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.


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.


The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.


The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.


There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.


There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

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