It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. Fields

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

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.
Henry Newbolt

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

The grace of God is courtesy.
Hilaire Belloc

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Elizabeth Hardwick

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
Edward V. Lucas

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.
Melissa Etheridge

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Zi

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Christopher Ricks

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