Courtesy Quotes

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The grace of God is courtesy.

– Hilaire Belloc

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

– Honore de Balzac

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

– John Wanamaker

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

– Bryant H. McGill

If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they’re saying ‘Hi.’ It’s so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There’s real courtesy.

– Mary Doria Russell

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

– Glen Duncan

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

– E. V. Lucas

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

– George Santayana

People are told their rights when they’re arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

– Gary Weiss

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

– Gustav Stresemann

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

– Margaret Chase Smith

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

– Michel de Montaigne

I just believe in common courtesy.

– Marcia Fudge

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

All doors open to courtesy.

– Thomas Fuller

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

– Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is a lady’s armor.

– Sophie Turner

Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.

– Yami Gautam