Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere. — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you're over someones house and they offer you food but you don't know how much to take. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could… — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Always tell the truth, use kind words, keep your promises, giggle and laugh, be positive, love one another, always be grateful, forgiveness… — Ashely Copy Share Image
Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
The people are different in L.A. There was a time when I lived in New York and that was a bit of… — Scott Clifton Copy Share Image
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
“A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided.… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
“Misanthropist’s manifesto: Do not tell a friend what your enemy ought not to know. Giving way neither to love nor hate is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“ Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly . It only requires a little pains, a… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“Woah,' I said, blocking the doorway. 'You can't come in here. This is the girls' room.' Even as it came out of… — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect… — P. M. Forni Copy Share Image
“This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a… — Mary Stanton Copy Share Image
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
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