Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Courtesy
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Stanley Horowitz
Mary Anne Grafton-Rodgers describing the late John F. Kennedy, Jr.
He doesn’t act like he thinks he is Mr. Wonderful. He always introduces himself, even though it’s obvious who he is. When you talk
Jules de Goncourt
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing.
Anonymous
Erastus Wiman
Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut
Kelty
Small courtesies, small kindnesses, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great