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“Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy” -Maya Angelou

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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.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness. -Bryant H. McGill

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required. -Joseph B. Wirthlin

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. -Bryant H. McGill

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

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. -Christian Nestell Bovee

Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner conversation with people who matter to you? You can’t wait five minutes before staring at your phone? -Martin Cooper

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. -Saint Basil

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. -Henry Clay

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. -Jacques Maritain

I’ve met the Queen a couple of times, and she’s been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: ‘What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I’ll do that.’ She’s all about courtesy. -Jools Holland

Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet. -Anonymous

The grace of God is courtesy. -Hilaire Belloc

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