Noble by courtesy.
Courtesy between nations.
All doors open to courtesy. [ Proverb ]
Full of courtesy and full of craft. [ Proverb ]
Courtesy on one side can never last long. [ Proverb ]
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To beg a courtesy is to sell one's liberty. [ Proverb ]
Begging of a courtesy is selling of liberty. [ Proverb ]
He that asks a courtesy promises a kindness. [ Proverb ]
A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed. [ Proverb ]
Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue. [ Proverb ]
Pluck not a courtesy in the bud before it is ripe. [ Proverb ]
High-erected thoughts, seated in a heart of courtesy. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
In courtesy, rather pay a penny too much than too little. [ Proverb ]
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is a rank courtesy, when a man is forced to give thanks for what is his own. [ Proverb ]
He who does not conform to courtesy generally pays the penalty of his haughtiness. [ Phaedr ]
To be humble to our superiors is duty; to our equals, courtesy; to our inferiors, generosity. [ Owen Feltham ]
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness, gathers love. [ Basil ]
Kind words are benedictions. They are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them. [ Frederick Saunders ]
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. [ Whipple ]
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others; and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. [ Bentham ]
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life. [ Geo. S. Hillard ]
This is he that kiss'd away his hand in courtesy; This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice. That when he plays at tables, chides the dice in honorable terms; nay, he can sing a mean most meanly; and in ushering, mend him who can; the ladies call him sweet; The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet. [ William Shakespeare ]