Politeness Quotes · Page 11

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

— John Reyes

As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their…

— Edward Young

“When affection fell on its ass, politeness could step up.”

— Lorrie Moore

“As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes…

— Tiffany Madison

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

— Carl Zuckmayer

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word 'Thatcher' and…

— George Galloway

[John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in…

— Gordon S. Wood

“They're the only thing worse than family, other people's family.”

— Anonymous

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to…

— Agnes Repplier

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let…

— Henry Clay

Politeness is practical Christianity.

— Orville Dewey

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

— Tommy Lee Jones

There was on section in First Corinthians 13 that talks about (showing) patience, kindness, politeness, how can I demonstrate forgiveness to my…

— Alex Kendrick

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

— Khaleda Zia

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

— Anonymous

“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

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if…

— Julia Child

I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them,…

— Nicole Krauss

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort…

— Bono

The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal…

— Natalie Goldberg

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

— Honore de Balzac

“Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the ‘civilized’ as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.”

— Vinod Pande