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«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.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
behave, courtesy, gentleness, heart a, on the way, other than, politeness, repellent
«Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy»
«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.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Courtesy,
Friendship,
Relationships,
Tact
| Keywords:
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«Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Learning
| Keywords:
a little, become, Be a Player, courtesies, courtesy, Friends, game, Game On, gaming, get in the game, helpful, his rule, laugh, laugh at, learn, listen, little, modesty, My Game, not only, objectivity, Other games, players, rules, Rules of, rule by, rule out, The Game of Life, The Rules, through, with modesty
«His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
| Keywords:
correspondence, Correspondences, courtesy, encountered, ended, extravagant, presents, punctilious, somewhat, wedding
«I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.»
«It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Courtesy
| Keywords:
courteous, courtesy, too little
«Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Courtesy,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
combined, courtesy, rooming house, wooden
«He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love»
«I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Courtesy
| Keywords:
courtesy, custom, entertainment, some other
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