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Courtesy Quotes (page 3)

You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads that feature cute young children or the giving of automobiles as Christmas presents, and the particularly grotesque equation of diamond jewelry with everlasting devotion. The message, in each case, is that if you love somebody you should buy stuff. A related phenomenon is the ongoing transformation, courtesy of Facebook, of the verb 'to like' from a state of... Jonathan Franzen
Cersei wondered what it would feel like to kiss another woman. Not lightly on the cheek, as was common courtesy amongst ladies of high birth, but full upon the lips. Taena's lips were very full. She wondered what it would feel like to suckle on those breasts, to lay the Myrish woman on her back and push her legs apart and use her as a man would use her. George R. R. Martin
I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock. E. L. Konigsburg
This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew. It will not be enough for always. He is very jealous. He will have you for no one but Himself in the end. C. S. Lewis
To save our friend? nerves, I suggest we meet on a plane of brutal courtesy. It need not interfere with our mutual distrust? -Francis Crawford of Lymond Dorothy Dunnett
Jackie Collins quote: "Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance..."
Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people’s thoughts and feelings. Jackie Collins
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable. Fannie Flagg
Henry David Thoreau quote: "A man can suffocate on courtesy."
A man can suffocate on courtesy. Henry David Thoreau
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want... V. S. Naipaul
But West, like the rest of the Trevors, was endlessly polite. It gave them protection; they could stand neatly behind their courtesy. Caroline B. Cooney
Beaming and melting in smiles of benevolence and self-effacement, they sidled up and plumped down next to Lucette, who turned to them with her last, last, last free gift of staunch courtesy that was stronger than failure and death. Vladimir Nabokov
Michel de Montaigne quote: "I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and..."
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. Michel de Montaigne
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
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter..."
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. Mahatma Gandhi

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