"Discourteous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... criticism of texts and sources has become a branch of sport: the least breach of the rules of the game is considered unpardonable, while conformity to them is enough to assure the approval of connoisseurs, irrespectively of the intrinsic value of the results obtained. Scholars are mostly malevolent and discourteous towards each other; they make molehills and call them mountains; their vanity is as comic as that of the citizen of Frankfort who used complacently to observe, 'All that you can see through yonder archway is Frankfort territory.'"[120] ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois
... go and speak to them,' I said; 'it would seem discourteous to be so near, and not speak to people who have shown ...
— "The Pomp of Yesterday" • Joseph Hocking
... he was at his prayers. Another so far overstepped the bounds of courtesy and propriety as to remonstrate with one of the new favorites upon his improper conduct, and Ivan, in order that there might be no bickerings and hard feelings in his family, slew the discourteous prince ...
— Strange Stories from History for Young People • George Cary Eggleston
... insisted on my coming below. "I told the Frenchmen something of your story," said he; "if I had not done so, they would have thought you discourteous, and your conduct somewhat strange. However, they now enter into your feelings ...
— Will Weatherhelm - The Yarn of an Old Sailor • W.H.G. Kingston
... very sorry," said Mrs. Drane, "that I should appear to have been discourteous to one who had done us a service, for which, I assure you, we are both very much obliged, but Dr. and Mrs. Tolbridge managed the whole affair of our removal from Mrs. Brinkly's house, and I did not suppose there was any one, besides them and ourselves, who would take the ...
— The Girl at Cobhurst • Frank Richard Stockton
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