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“Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.”
Sheldon Vanauken“Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration“The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it.”
Christian Nestell Bovee“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”
Jacques Maritain“You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.”
Lawrence Goldstone“Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.”
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
Theodore Roosevelt“If we want people to accept us as we are, then we should accord the same courtesy to them”
Norhafsah Hamid, Trying to be Muslim“Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.“It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.”
Mercy Otis Warren