Sometimes being polite won't take you anywhere, so you have to be mean in order to mean something in life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A sweetened poison may go down more easily but will kill you just as surely.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are not nice, but… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us… — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave… — Fran Lebowitz 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
I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the… — William Gilmore Simms 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
True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to… — Samuel Smiles 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
“When the Starbursts cost a cent apiece, the average number of candies per customer was 3.5, but when the price went down… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“One of the more tiring aspects of hitchhiking is a need to be sociable and make conversation with whoever is driving you.… — Tony Hawks Copy Share Image
“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Don’t say bad words; don’t interrupt people; don’t shove; don’t steal; don’t lie. To the child, all these prohibitions appear identical (“It’s… — Andre Compte-Sponville Copy Share Image
“If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does it assume… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring… — William Carey Copy Share Image
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