Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.
Courtesy Quotes
Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts.
Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is… opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once 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 […]
True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
