Top Courtesy Quotes
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Margaret Chase Smith
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.
Bryant H. McGill
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain
Xun Zi 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
Fran Lebowitz 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
Oliver Wendell Holmes All Courtesy Quotes
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
59% of people like this quote
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Margaret Chase Smith
57% of people like this quote
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.
Bryant H. McGill
56% of people like this quote
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt
56% of people like this quote
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Elizabeth Hardwick
55% of people like this quote
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
John Wanamaker
54% of people like this quote
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Popular Courtesy Authors
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMohandas GandhiGeorge SantayanaThomas FullerMichel de MontaigneHonore De BalzacOliver Wendell HolmesTheodore RooseveltHenry Wadsworth LongfellowBryant H. McGillBaltasar GracianW. C. FieldsHedy LamarrFran LebowitzXun Zi
Gustav StresemannHarriet Beecher StoweHilaire BellocKent McCordMercy Otis WarrenMelissa EtheridgeJohn WanamakerJacques MaritainMargaret Chase SmithEdward V. LucasElizabeth HardwickPeter ArnettKhaleda ZiaSaint BasilE. V. Lucas
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