"Discourtesy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not say out.... If he engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better perhaps, but less educated minds; who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who mistake the point in argument, waste their strength on trifles, misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than ...
— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... among the Hebrews of old. It was sufficient justification for the undertaking of any enterprise or for any change of intention. Thus the departure of the Delaware delegation was shorn of all surprise or imputation of discourtesy. The head-men among the Cherokees felt it very definitely a relief to be freed from the ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock
... with the characteristic discourtesy of the Caracunan lower class, and jerked his head backward toward ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... I tell you, Conklin, I consider that I have been treated with utter discourtesy; I've been a virtual ...
— The Just and the Unjust • Vaughan Kester
... plain speaking, and by no means comfortable to Lopez. What of personal discourtesy there had been in the lawyer's words,—and they had not certainly been flattering,—he could throw off from him as meaning nothing. As he could not afford to quarrel with his father-in-law, he thought it probable that he might have to bear a good deal of incivility from the old man. He was ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope
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