(19 quotes found)
“A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.”
Cyrano De Bergerac
“I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.”
William Shakespeare
“You kill me so courteously”
Lois McMaster Bujold
“As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors”
Thomas Fuller
“Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.”
W. Averell Harriman
“Most of the time people are very courteous and very nice and generally they just want to say hello and get an autograph.”
Wayne Rogers
“She was a true sportsman. She was courteous. If she lost, she would say, 'Good game. Thanks for playing.' If she won, she was ecstatic.”
Cathy Poole
“You know, I was very courteous while you were speaking.”
Virginia Littrell
“the West was acting like a courteous gentleman or even a skilled lover, trying to defend Ukraine, although the Russian government behaved like an impotent rapist.”
Yulia Timoshenko
“You cannot love more than you do, but you can be more courteous when showing it!”
Mariana Fulger
