Coins Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Plus, it is basic human nature to treat polite people worse than rude people. It is easier to assert dominance over a person unlikely…

— Joseph Fink

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Bryant H. McGill

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

— Judith Martin

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a…

— Brandon Sanderson

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that…

— Dean Koontz

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the…

— Judith Martin

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

— Lord Chesterfield

Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods

— Anonymous

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Daniel Dennett