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Letter "C" » Courtesy
«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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«Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| About:
Courtesy
| Keywords:
courtesy, saves
«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
«If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Courtesy,
Grace,
Relationships
| Keywords:
citizen, Continent, courteous, cutting off, cut off, gracious, island, joins, lands, show off, Strangers
«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»
«Courtesy on one side can never last long»
«Less of your courtesy and more of your purse»
«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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