Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
The grace of God is courtesy.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Courtesy is a lady's armor.