C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.”
“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 small act but it packs a mighty wallop.”
“Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.”
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.”
“Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action, there is a reason; if there be a reason, it is not courtesy, for courtesy has no reason. Courtesy is good will, and good will is prompted by the heart full of love to be kind. Only the generous man is truly courteous. He gives freely without a thought of receiving anything in return.”
“Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.”
Source: The Ape in Me
“Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.”
“Courtesy is not learned by instinct. Like the other components of respect, courtesy has to be taught and modeled.”
Source: How to Value Your Sons
“Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life”
Source: Too Many Cooks
“Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.”
Source: Those Jordan Girls
“Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.”
“Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.”
“Courtesy, my boy,” he told his son. “That’s how they’ll remember you’re a noble, no matter what they think of the faith we keep. Yes, bend over backwards, if you must, but never let yourself be outdone in a generous nature, a fair mind, and good manners. Remember these three things, dear Ned, for no one can take them away from you. Leave the rest to God.”
Source: All Ye That Pass By: Book 1: Gone for a Soldier
“Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation.”
“Courtesy of their tempers, both were now dressed in the Captain Asshole costume—which included, for no extra charge, the cape of disgrace, the booties of shame, and keys to the Fuck Up mobile.”
Source: Lover Reborn
“Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.["]”
Source: Ivanhoe
“Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person.”
“Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.”
“COURTESY
We never talk ill of a departed soul; our world
would be a much nicer place if we extended the
same courtesy to those who are yet to depart.”
Source: Inner Explorations of a Seeker
“Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.”
Source: The poems of John Milton
“Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.”
“Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.”
Source: Idylls of the King
“Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice”
Source: The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and His Journey Through Germany and Italy ; Together with a Comprehensive Life and Side and Foot Notes from All the Commentators, Fully Explanatory of the Text ; Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, Etc., Etc
“Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.”
“Courthouses are good and necessary first half of life institutes. In the second half, you try instead to influence events, work for change, quietly persuade, change your own attitude, pray or forgive instead of taking things to court.”
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.”
Source: Foundation
“Courting a princess does come with a few perks. Such as an immortal madwoman chasing us to the ends of the realm."
"Yeah… Sorry about that."
He snorted. "I wanted my life to be more interesting. Now I'm made of molten rock. Guess I should be thanking you.”
Source: To Speak with the Stars
“Courting is a much sweeter term than 'dating'. It sounds like it has more intent, more like an agreement that two people enter into with a future in mind.”
“Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s vices.”
“courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task.”
“Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.”
Source: Memoirs
“Courtly lover is a dangerous game, and those who play for lust rather than love are often richly rewarded in scorn.”
Source: Hawkwood's Sword
“Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.”
“Courtney Cox got me this Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer. She wears it, too! If one of us finds a product we love, we buy it for the other.”
“Courtney didn't like babies at the best of times. As far as she was concerned, anything that existed solely to emit drool, vomit, ghastly odors and loud, annoying screams was more trouble than it was worth.”
Source: Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things
“Courtney!’ he shouted, but didn’t know if she could hear him.
Where was she?
‘Courtney!’
There. He forced his way over to her and pulled the sickos from her back. She was bleeding from small cuts all over her, and her right arm was red from shoulder to fingertips, but she was still battling with her knife. DogNut took hold of her and started to drag her away, ignoring the sickos that grabbed at him from all sides. All his energy was ebbing away. He wasn’t sure how much longer he could keep this up.
‘Come on, Courtney,’ he said. ‘Don’t give up. You and me, girl. You and me.’
‘You and me, Dog,’ said Courtney.
‘Love you, girl...’
‘Love you, too...”
Source: The Fear
“Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.”
“Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.”
“Courtney Love said she once escorted Kerry to a concert. John Kerry once went out with Courtney Love and he's questioning Bush's judgment.”
“Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time.”
“Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.”
“Courtroom dramas can be boring.”
“Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, "And I'm not getting laid." What am I doing wrong?”
“Courtrooms are battlegrounds where society’s bullies and the oppressed clash, where the victims of abusers seek recompense, and where parties cheated by scalawags seek retribution. Because of the high stakes involved, the parties are not always honest, and justice depends upon an array of factors including the prevailing case precedent, the skills of the legal advocates, and the merits of each party’s claims and counterclaims.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Courtrooms (can) be exciting arenas where combating attorneys (fight) out issues of life and death, but there (is) nothing exciting about a courtroom where tired old loves (go) to die, or to be exhumed for delayed post-mortem.”
“Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.”