Definition of Courtesy

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Courtesy

Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.

An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.

Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy.

An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees.

To make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes.

To treat with civility.

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Courtesy Quotations

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

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz

Courtesy Translations

courtesy in Swedish is artighet

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