#courtesy

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. ↗

— Judith Martin

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Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree? ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#politeness #thoughtfulness #life

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness. ↗

— Dumas Malone

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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. ↗

— Xun Zi

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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

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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

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

— Baltasar Gracian

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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. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The grace of God is courtesy. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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