Courtesy Quotes

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.

You kill me so courteously.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

One of the embarrassments of being a gentleman is that you are not permitted to be violent in asserting your rights.

Of what use are forms, seeing at times they are empty? Of the same use as barrels, which at times, are empty too.

A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed.

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.