Politeness Quote by Charlotte Lennox Download Open image “Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.” — Charlotte Lennox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Politeness Sincerity Sometimes Taxes Truth
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession. — Barrett Brown Copy Share Image
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
“For Heaven's sake, Cousin, resumed Arabella, laughing, how have you spent your Time; and to what Studies have you devoted all your Hours, that… — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
“Since, replied Arabella, that uneasiness has neither made you thinner, nor paler, I don't think you ought to be pitied...” — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
“That a man who had once betrayed him, it would be an error in policy ever to trust again.” — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or… — Henry Fielding 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 or not… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while;… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know. — Frank McCourt 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 madamed once,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
