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

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.

Fran Lebowitz

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.

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

Friendship

Courtesy

Tact

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.

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

Courtesy

Injustice

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

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

All doors open to courtesy.

Thomas Fuller

Courtesy

Open

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

W. C. Fields

Courtesy

Woman

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.

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

The grace of God is courtesy.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honore de Balzac

Courtesy

Selfishness

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.