Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Courage, or the degree of life, is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries. Emerson.

Courage sans peur—Courage without fear. Fr.

Courage, sir, / That makes man or woman look their goodliest. Tennyson.

Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive. Ruskin.

Courtesy costs nothing. Pr. 5

Courtesy is cumbersome to him that kens it not. Sc. Pr.

Courtesy is often sooner found in lowly sheds with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named. Milton.

Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence. Much Ado, i. 1.

Courtesy never broke one's crown. Gael. Pr.

Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil 10 churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown. Scott.