#courtesy

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#cleanliness #come #courtesy #downward #excluded

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#courtesy #denied #germany #long #long time

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

#brutality #bureaucratic #city #coherent #come

Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut Jailbird

#love #love

You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect. ↗

— Lawrence Goldstone

#respect #respect

Strangers are only offensive when they offer courteous greetings. It abolishes the impartial judgment needed for a just society. ↗

— Bauvard

#familiarity #funny #humor #justice #strangers

Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it. ↗

— Sheldon Vanauken

#love #romance #love

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bruise #chivalry #courtesy #courting #delicate

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#general #only #selfishness #thin #veneer