I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
To be able to continue to be polite to those who are rude is a peak in good character that we should… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“Nothing patronizing, nothing sexist--just a slightly outdated politeness, and the general regard it might suggest.” — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
“You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it.… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“By speaking with courtesy and respect, you are offering a wonderful gift to yourself, a useful embarrassment to the unkind, and a… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Avoid contact with all people in whom there is no possible resonance with what touches you most deeply and toward whom you… — Laure (Colette) Peignot Copy Share Image
Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge… — Alfred Sheinwold Copy Share Image
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you have plenty, give generously. If you have just enough, give something. If you have not, smile & distinguish yourself with politeness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A woman says to a man, 'Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
“You can't teach a flower to be polite, because it's already polite; you need to teach politeness to a rude cactus!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
“Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him.” — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
“I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“But Johannes had said, "Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The need of politeness is at its maximum in speaking with foreigners, and is so irksome as to be paralysing to those… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Being nice to someone you have an issue with doesn't mean you are fake...it means someone taught you how to be polite. — Louise Angela Deseles Copy Share Image
“What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought… — Frank Medlicott Copy Share Image
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain… You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
