#courtesy

Strangers are only offensive when they offer courteous greetings. It abolishes the impartial judgment needed for a just society. ↗

— Bauvard

#familiarity #funny #humor #justice #strangers

Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it. ↗

— Sheldon Vanauken

#love #romance #love

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bruise #chivalry #courtesy #courting #delicate

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#general #only #selfishness #thin #veneer

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. ↗

— Peter Arnett

#beginning #coming #cooperation #courtesy #here

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus. ↗

— Sean Astin

#backward #because #bus #car #courtesy

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. ↗

— Saint Basil

#deed #deeds #friendship #fruit #gathers

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

— John Wanamaker

#courtesy #much #never #stingy #too

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. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#always #appreciate #courtesy #different #different view

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. ↗

— Robert Chambers

#courtesy #demand #demeanor #equal #how