{"quotes":[{"text":"Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["barbarian","barbarism","civil","civilization","courtesy","manners","passion"],"id":144,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, 'Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.","author":"Cecilia Dart-Thornton","tags":["compassion","courtesy","faeries","fairies","kindness","thank-you"],"id":8369,"author_id":"Cecilia+Dart-Thornton"},{"text":"Liking me is optional. . .Respecting me is not!","author":"Izey Victoria Odiase","tags":["courtesy","respect","respect-others","respect","respect-yourself","respected","respectful","respecting-others","respecting-yourself"],"id":21612,"author_id":"Izey+Victoria+Odiase"},{"text":"He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain  Can never rise to fight again.","author":"Oliver Goldsmith","tags":["courtesy"],"id":22062,"author_id":"Oliver+Goldsmith"},{"text":"Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["across","bad-friends","close","companion","courteous","courtesy","door","door-post","doorpost","food-for-thought","friends","friendship","good-friends","intimacy","intimate","israelmore-ayivor","narrow","reserve","spread","trust","trusted","trustworthy","wide"],"id":29346,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.","author":"Lawrence Goldstone","tags":["courtesy","respect"],"id":38848,"author_id":"Lawrence+Goldstone"},{"text":"Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good. NetworkEtiquette.Net.","author":"David Chiles","tags":["courtesy","digital","education","engagement","etiquette","goodreads","internet","manners","netiquette","online","school","social-media","social-networking","surfing"],"id":41886,"author_id":"David+Chiles"},{"text":"My dear, a little smile, a little courtesy, a little kindness is what beauty entails. Some are not roses, some are oranges.","author":"Adeosun Olamide","tags":["beauty","courtesy","kindness"],"id":42150,"author_id":"Adeosun+Olamide"},{"text":"...A great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please but by knowing how to spend it well. To the poor gentleman there is no other way of showing that he is a gentleman than by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered and helpful; not haughty, arrogant or censorious, but above all by being charitable...And no one who sees him adorned with the virtues I have mentioned, will fail to recognize and judge him, though he know him not, to be of good stock.","author":"Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra","tags":["arrogance","charity","courtesy","virtue"],"id":59499,"author_id":"Miguel+de+Cervantes+Saavedra"},{"text":"Your name?' George asked him directly. He had probably seen the man a dozen times before yet did not know anything about him. King Davit would have no doubt have known half the man's history already.'Henry.'George took Henry's hand firmly in his own and looked into his eyes. This had to be done delicately, to make sure this Henry did not think him a fool. He tried to think of how his father would do it.'Thank you, Henry, for your concern. It is a comfort to know I am so well guarded. I will make sure to praise you when next I speak to the lord general. But for now I think there is no need to worry.","author":"Mette Ivie Harrison","tags":["acknowledgement","appreciation","courtesy","diplomacy","guard","prince","social-skills","soldier"],"id":65232,"author_id":"Mette+Ivie+Harrison"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}