A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed.
More Chinese Proverbs:
One can forgive a murder but not impoliteness.Chinese
The spirit of women is made of quicksilver; their heart of wax.
Chinese
The first time you cheat me, be ashamed. The second time it is I who must be ashamed.
Chinese
There is gossip every day, but if no one listens anymore the gossip will die.
Chinese
Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.
Chinese
The thoughtless person buries a well when he is thirsty.
Chinese