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Courtesy Quotes - Page 4

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.122

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.406

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.106

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

"The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia". Book by Philip Sidney. Book 1, 1590.

Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.505, Harvard University Press