Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous. — Joan M. Drury 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
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. — P. T. Barnum 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
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence. — African Spir 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
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
“When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.” — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
“Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?” — Andrew Ashling 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
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
