A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed.
Courtesy Quotes
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden – not silence.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
In Courtesy, rather pay a penny too much than too little.
True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease; the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
Apologizing: a very desperate habit – one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man’s companion knows of his shortcoming is from his apology. It is mighty presumptuous on your part to suppose your small failures of so much consequence that you […]
