Politeness Quotes · Page 10

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

— Jackie Kennedy

Imagine a superstar of his stature coming to someone like me and saying, 'Hi Meghana, I'm Mohanlal. Nice to meet you!' I…

— Meghana Raj

Kindness is not a virtue when you sacrifice the truth to achieve it.

— Drew Istotle

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

— Nora Ephron

“Aggression is just where politeness is ignored.”

— Amit Kalantri

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

— Edwin Land

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

— H.C. Roberts

“You are a worthy competitor, the best rival I ever encountered, it is an honour to be your opponent, you are better…

— Amit Kalantri

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

— Vladimir Putin

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

— Anonymous

“Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.”

— Amit Kalantri

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings…

— Henri Rousseau

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

— Jeff Bezos

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I'm a shreddermouf, aren't I?' 'I was afraid of that,' said Tansy. He was going to keep her in his larder until…

— Elizabeth Kay

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot…

— George Eliot

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness…

— Veronica Roth

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

— Patricia Hampl

Politeness is organized indifference.

— Paul Valery

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

— Edmund Wilson

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but…

— Gayle Forman

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong,…

— Stephen Fry

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and…

— Samuel Johnson

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

— Samuel Smiles