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Cordial Quotes

On warmth, peace, and old-fashioned manners

These cordial quotes describe warmth between unlikely neighbors, peaceful relations between nations, and the old-fashioned courtesy expected between officers of different rank.

In Mexico, wealth and poverty live next to each other and are cordial with each other - in my experience.

Quotes by Whit Stillman

I have always believed in cordial relationship with political parties and their leaders.

Quotes by Sharad Pawar

I don't go to a lot of other directors' sets; directors don't come to mine. Directors are all very cordial with each other, but they're not necessarily friendly.

Quotes by Peter Berg

I have worked with Chuck Grassley off and on through the years, and always had what I considered and what I think he'd consider a cordial working relationship.

Quotes by Patty Judge

Always Quotes

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

Quotes by Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it...

Quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

Quotes by Lester B. Pearson

It is certainly for the interest of the service that a cordial interchange of civilities should subsist between superior and inferior officers, and therefore, it is bad policy in superiors to behave towards their inferiors indiscriminately, as though they were...

Quotes by John Paul Jones

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when...

Quotes by Jeff Lindsay

Artist Quotes

I had a cordial relationship with all my heroes - some, like Jeetendra or Shatrughan Sinha, are very funny. Amitabh, on the other hand, was more serious, more professional.

Quotes by Hema Malini

Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a cordial relationship, and, indeed, Mehmet Ertegun may have helped insure that Turkey did not ally...

Quotes by George W. S. Trow

Formed in 1967 and still performing regularly half a century later, Fairport Convention are Britain's equivalent of the Band. Unlike the latter they have maintained cordial relations.

Quotes by David Hepworth

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Quotes by Daniel Nathans

I've only met LeBron casually. He's always been great to me. I think I've been great and cordial to him, but this notion that we have to be friends - we're never gonna be friends. And that's not a negative...

Quotes by Charles Barkley

Bad Quotes

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Quotes by Auguste Rodin

Frequently Asked Questions

What does cordial mean across these quotes?
Warm and polite - whether between neighbors of different means, nations at peace, or officers of different rank.
Is there an unusual, older use of the word?
Yes, one quote calls religion a cordial to the sick, using the word's older meaning as a soothing remedy.
Is there a quote about international relations?
Yes, one expresses a wish for cordial, friendly relations with neighboring countries and the world at large.
Do any quotes discuss everyday relationships?
Yes, one describes wealth and poverty existing cordially side by side in a specific personal experience of Mexico.
Is there a workplace-related quote?
Yes, one discusses the value of cordial civility between superior and inferior officers in service life.

One older quote even calls religion a cordial - a comfort to the distressed and a check on the wicked - showing how far the word's meaning has traveled.