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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come in relation with a person, the more necessary tact and courtesy become.
Courtesy | Tact | Friendship |
Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil, aka Basil of Caesarea, Saint Basil the Great NULL
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Arthur Helps, fully Sir Arthur Helps
Few persons have tact enough to perceive when to be silent.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
Men | Perseverance | Qualities | Tact |
Fran Lebowitz, fully Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz
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.
Courtesy | Gentleness | People | Sense | Politeness | Old | Value |
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.
Courtesy | Tact | Friendship |
Granted that ritual in any realm from courtesy to worship can become formal, empty, and stiff. Nevertheless, with all its dangers it is an absolute necessity. We cannot… train children in the spirit of religion if the appropriate activities of worship and devotion are forgotten.
Absolute | Children | Courtesy | Devotion | Religion | Spirit | Worship |
Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity. The nature of man is such that he is born with a fondness for profit. If he indulges this fondness, it will lead him into wrangling and strife, and all sense of courtesy and humility will disappear. He is born with feelings of envy and hate, and if he indulges these, they will lead him into violence and crime, and all sense of loyalty and good faith will disappear.
Courtesy | Envy | Faith | Feelings | Good | Humility | Loyalty | Loyalty | Man | Nature | Sense | Will |
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Humility and courtesy are acts of piety.
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Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Nicolas Chamfort,fully Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort, also spelled Nicholas
Good taste, tact, and propriety have more in common than men of letters affect to believe. Tact is good taste applied to bearing and conduct, and propriety is good taste applied to conversation.
Ouida, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé, preferred to be called Marie Louise de la Ramée NULL
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
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Paul Chatfield, pseudonym for Horace Smith
By a union courtesy and talent an adversary may be made to grace his own defeat, as the sandal-tree perfumes the hatchet that cuts it down.
I think a great many marriages would be saved if people would behave toward one another with the same courtesy that they would extend to someone whom they really didn't know as well as a marriage necessarily implies. ... It's not very easy to do, but it is surely easier to do than to haggle and nag and fight and bitch and yelp at one another as you hear a lot of married people doing ... They seem to feel that the familiarity of affection permits anything, including insult.
Courtesy | Familiarity | Marriage | People | Think |