A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant McGillStichwörter: social manners politeness courtesy polite
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Bryant McGillStichwörter: manners politeness courtesy consideration
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 McGillStichwörter: manners politeness courtesy consideration
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
Bryant McGillStichwörter: manners rudeness courtesy politenessness
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I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
Herman MelvilleStichwörter: friend kindness christian courtesy pagan
Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, "Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.
Cecilia Dart-ThorntonStichwörter: kindness compassion fairies courtesy thank-you faeries
...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please but by knowing how to spend it well. To the poor gentleman there is no other way of showing that he is a gentleman than by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered and helpful; not haughty, arrogant or censorious, but above all by being charitable...and no one who sees him adorned with the virtues I have mentioned, will fail to recognize and judge him, though he know him not, to be of good stock.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraStichwörter: virtue arrogance charity courtesy
I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as easily as with the partridge which, Aristotle says, needs only to hear the voice of the cock or its flight overhead - to assume that at the mere sound of the word 'concealment' everyone can easily shake a dozen romances and comedies from his sleeve.
Søren KierkegaardStichwörter: courtesy aristotle concealment aesthetically-voluptuous-age partridge-and-cock
Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: friendship friends trust food-for-thought intimacy courtesy door close companion reserve intimate narrow wide across trustworthy israelmore-ayivor bad-friends good-friends courteous door-post doorpost spread trusted
Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
Ali ibn Abi TalibStichwörter: inspirational courtesy
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