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.
Mahatma Gandhi
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. Fields
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore De Balzac
All doors open to courtesy.
Thomas Fuller
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
Mercy Otis Warren
I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
Hedy Lamarr
Courtesy Translations
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