Politeness Quotes · Page 7

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,

— Daniel Dennett

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.

— Yiyun Li

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

— Jane Austen

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

— George Bernard Shaw

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

— Frank McCourt

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”  -Josh Billings”

— Genna Rulon

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

— Bryant H. McGill

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms…

— Mark Twain

What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of…

— Humphry Davy

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the…

— Arnold Bennett

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

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

— Nicole Krauss

People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of…

— Anonymous

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb…

— James McBride

Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art…

— Madame de Stael

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not…

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Natalie Goldberg

The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but…

— T. R. Knight

Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to…

— Pascal Bruckner

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

— Edmund Wilson

Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.

— E. M. Forster

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

— Sir Fulke Greville

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

— Haruki Murakami

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

— Bryant H. McGill

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

— Lorrie Moore

“Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?”

— Andrew Ashling

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

— Ronald Knox

Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.

— Peter Frampton

ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.

— Nellie Bly

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

— Josh Billings

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

— Khaleda Zia

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

— Blaise Pascal

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

— Samuel Johnson