Courteous Quotes
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Oh it is not without scathe that one is gentle, courteous, reasonable, patient, day after day, year after year.
— Samuel Beckett
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
— Angela Merici
Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.
— James Cash Penney
A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
— Cyrano De Bergerac
A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
— Edmond Rostand
In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Because life was collective, it was intensely sociable and dependent on etiquette, hence the emphasis on courteous conduct and clean fingernails.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.
— Joan M. Drury
A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument that can be produced in favor of Christianity.
— Ellen G. White
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world.
— Francis Bacon
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
— Baltasar Gracian
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
— Paul McCartney
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
— Francis Bacon
I am a believer in trying to treat people properly and trying to respond and making sure that I find the time to be courteous.
— Richard Branson
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
— Rudyard Kipling
We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
— Peter Jennings
Patience isn't simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
— Peter Tork
If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful , or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture.
— Patricia Highsmith
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
— Philip Guedalla
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the ...
— Malcolm X
In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.
— Wallace D. Wattles
Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance.
— George Washington
If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.
— Elizabeth Gillies
Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.
— James Woods
Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous.
— Laura Fitzgerald
Always so very courteous. Lose courtesy, and you lose control; lose control and you lose yourself.
— Claire North
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
— W. Averell Harriman
'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.
— Douglas Booth
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.
— J. Sidlow Baxter
When you smile, you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.
— Ron Gutman
Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
— George Washington
A courteous, yet harrowing Grace,As Guest, that would be gone — Emily Dickinson
Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment
— A. L. Kennedy
For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.
— Gautama Buddha
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.
— George Herbert
I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.
— Juliet Marillier
The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.
— Sheila Ostrander
The common people say, that physicians are the classof people who kill other men in the most polite and
courteous manner. — John Of Salisbury
Advertisers are the West's courteous censors.
— Naomi Wolf