Courtesy on one side can never last long.
Courtesy Quotes
Less of your courtesy and more of your purse.
Politeness travels on short fares.
A favor ill – placed is great waste.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
The only way to treat a Prussian is to step on his toes until he apologizes.
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is… opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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 […]
True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
