Good manners consist, for the most part, in courteousness and kindness.
For a great deal depends upon first impressions; and these are usually favourable or otherwise according to a man's courteousness and civility.
They are only too anxious to lead the way in all reformation, and, with all this, are remarkable for their courteousness and refined manner.
I was rather impressed by the remarkable facility with which he could switch on extreme courteousness and severity, kindliness and contempt.
In the consciousness of his rank and his social position, he could afford a perfect courteousness of demeanor, in which even a certain degree of geniality might be observed.
He urged the priest to betake himself to rest, thanking him very warmly; he said the same to Fraeulein Perini, with an odd mingling of courteousness and authoritativeness in his manner; he requested the Major to stay with him.
