Courtesy Quotes

An excess of courtesy is discourtesy.

Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous.

Never spend time with people who don’t respect you.

Excellent people are honored wherever they go.

No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little.

It is difficult to find a courteous person today who isn’t trying to sell you something.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

Apologizing: a very desperate habit – one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man’s companion knows of his shortcoming is from his apology. It is mighty presumptuous on your part to suppose your small failures of so much consequence that you […]

A man’s good breeding, is the best security against other people’s ill manners.

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.