All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced there come in with her courtesy cleanliness sobriety and order.

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength the latter becomes irresistible.

Therefore a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility obey the conventions and rules of society and achieve order.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience decency politeness and courtesy.

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

The American Dream coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

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.