Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

Power without authority is tyranny.

To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.

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.

The grace of God is courtesy.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

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

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.

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.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

All doors open to courtesy.

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.

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

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

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

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

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

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

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

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

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.

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.

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

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.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

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.

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.

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

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.

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

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

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 a lady's armor.