Politeness Quotes · Page 7

The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness

— Neal Stephenson

The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

— P. T. Barnum

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

— Otto von Bismarck

Be polite even to those who are rude to you, not because they are, but because of you are.

— John Reyes

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

— Paul Ford

“Good manners cost nothing. Bad manners can cost you your reputation”

— B.D.Hawkey

Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

— Barrett Brown

“Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.”

— Natalya Vorobyova

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will…

— Abraham Lincoln

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

— Samuel Johnson

The higher we get educated and higher we are placed, the softer should be our approach and humbler should be our attitude.

— Senora Roy

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

“Would you like a drink?” Politeness wins out over everything else I’d like to say. “No, thank you, Anastasia.” He smiles a…

— E. L. James

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

— African Spir

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.

— Anonymous

“As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in…

— Tahir Shah

If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and…

— John Krasinski

I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the…

— Nora Ephron

“Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them;…

— Fanny Burney

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of…

— Henry Fielding

The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a…

— Anonymous

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is…

— Lawrence Durrell

With everybody having a Facebook and a Twitter, I feel like regular people consider themselves stars. It's a live, real-time upload of…

— Jeff Ross

“Who cared about manners when their whole life was falling apart?”

— H.C. Roberts

Politeness has become so rare, that people often mistake it for flirting.

— Uknown

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

— Yair Lapid

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

— Anonymous

“Politeness never was one of your strong points” “Bitch was always one of yours though”

— R.S. Burnett

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.

— Yiyun Li

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,

— Daniel Dennett

“His manner somehow friendly and courtly at the same time.”

— Nancy Gibbs

Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

— Carl Zuckmayer

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

— Fanny Burney

“Francis Bacon somewhere remarks that politeness veils vice just as dress masks wrinkles.”

— John Doran

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

— Joseph Joubert

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of…

— Anonymous