Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

- Henry Newbolt

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.

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

- Margaret Chase Smith

I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.

- Maria Semple

I just believe in common courtesy.

- Marcia Fudge

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.

- Mitt Romney

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

- Michel de Montaigne

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

- Mahatma Gandhi

I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town.

- Luke Harding

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

- John Wanamaker

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

- Baltasar Gracian

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

- Honore de Balzac

The grace of God is courtesy.

- Hilaire Belloc

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

- Gustav Stresemann

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

- Glen Duncan

People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

- Gary Weiss

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

- E. V. Lucas

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

- Bryant H. McGill