Sometimes being polite won't take you anywhere, so you have to be mean in order to mean something in life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“A sweetened poison may go down more easily but will kill you just as surely.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons. — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I learnt the hard way that crafting folk aren't all patchwork, pot pourri and politeness and that when it comes to the… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
“Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the ‘civilized’ as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.” — Vinod Pande Copy Share Image
“The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.” — Lyle W. Dorsett Copy Share Image
Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous. — Joan M. Drury Copy Share Image
One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
“Politeness must be cultivated, for the promptings of nature are eminently selfish, and courtesy and good-breeding are only attainable by effort and… — Arthur Martine Copy Share Image
“The crime rates would go right down, I think, if Americans stopped saying: 'Have a nice day,' to one another. At least… — Susannah Clapp Copy Share Image
It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but… — T. R. Knight Copy Share Image
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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