One of the embarrassments of being a gentleman is that you are not permitted to be violent in asserting your rights.
Courtesy Quotes
Of what use are forms, seeing at times they are empty? Of the same use as barrels, which at times, are empty too.
A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed.
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden – not silence.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
In Courtesy, rather pay a penny too much than too little.
True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease; the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
