Best Politeness Quotes
156 Politeness quotes by 133 unique authors
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I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom…
— Nora Ephron
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Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
— Louis XVIII of France
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Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.
— Arnold Bennett
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When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
— Ronald Knox
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long…
— Abraham Lincoln
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
— George Bernard Shaw
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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.
— William Feather
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
— Samuel Johnson
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The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.
— Vladimir Putin
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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,
— Daniel Dennett
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You…
— Peter Ustinov
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Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
— Edmond Rostand
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
— Josh Billings
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
— Honore de Balzac
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and…
— Mark Twain
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Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
— Jules Renard
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