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 […]
Courtesy Quotes
True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Too long together, and even courtesy is gone… people are more courteous to strangers than they are to their own wives and husbands!
We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
All doors open to courtesy.
