105 Quotes About Courtesy

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

Remember, please is the magic word, but its not the Magic Wyrd.

You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.

Courtesy is not learned by instinct. Like the other components of respect, courtesy has to be taught and modeled.

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.

Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?

Words are like the wind. They will blow away your own footsteps but they also will blow away the footsteps and thoughts of others. Use them wisely and with care.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.