“The greater person is one of courtesy.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love”
Proverb
“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
George Washington