#courtesy

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong. ↗

— Henry Newbolt

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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. ↗

— E. V. Lucas

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It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. ↗

— Khaleda Zia

#decency #having #impossible #parliamentary #patience

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#american dream #cheap #consumer #coupled #courtesy

The grace of God is courtesy. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#god #grace

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#behave #courtesy #find #gentleness #heart

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ↗

— Kent McCord

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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#courtesy #i #much #often #people

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

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

— Lawrence Goldstone

#respect #respect