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“I am the very pink of courtesy.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“O dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can tickle where she wounds!” William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
“A lady's armor is courtesy” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an...” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“Gentlemen, which means boys, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless...” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Courtesy of tongue . . . when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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