Careful Words

courtesy (n.)

  Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Letters and Social Aims. Social Aims.

  High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586): Arcadia. Book i.

The mirror of all courtesy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1.

I am the very pink of courtesy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 4.