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I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

The grace of God is courtesy.

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

All doors open to courtesy.

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

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

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

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.

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

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

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.

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

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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.