COURTESY

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

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Jean Paul Richter

Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nevell Bovee

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
Proverbs

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.
Source Unknown

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some circumstances -- but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J. Watson

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Abel Stevens

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
St. Basil

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.
Erastus Wiman

Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.
Source Unknown

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
Evelyn Waugh