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 Copy Share Image
When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought… — Frank Medlicott Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain… You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 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
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“That is why I am proudly and vocally a nasty woman; tired of making excuses, of letting politeness stop me from defending… — 404 Ink Copy Share Image
There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
TREAT EVERYONE WITH POLITENESS EVEN THOSE WHO ARE RUDE TO YOU, NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT NICE BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE NICE…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Speaking in a gentle way doesn’t only show politeness, it’s a mark of self-possession. Self-possessed people don’t see the need to draw… — Eliza Chamber Copy Share Image
“She already told me that she doesn't have to be nice, so why do I? Because my mother raised me right? That's… — Sheryl J. Anderson Copy Share Image
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one’s a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The first day in Tokyo was disorientating - all neon, gadgets and extreme politeness - but I was surprised to find that… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it.… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“By speaking with courtesy and respect, you are offering a wonderful gift to yourself, a useful embarrassment to the unkind, and a… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Avoid contact with all people in whom there is no possible resonance with what touches you most deeply and toward whom you… — Laure (Colette) Peignot Copy Share Image
Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge… — Alfred Sheinwold Copy Share Image
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
To be able to continue to be polite to those who are rude is a peak in good character that we should… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
“Sydney tried — sometimes he really tried — but his default mindset didn’t have those kinds of manners. What he really meant… — Rebecca McKinsey Copy Share Image
One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Nothing patronizing, nothing sexist--just a slightly outdated politeness, and the general regard it might suggest.” — Nickolas Butler 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
