Coffee Quote by Dorothea Johnson

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

— Anonymous

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining…

— Anonymous

“The British custom of taking tea as an afternoon break has more to do with sugar than with tea. During the nineteenth century, when…

— Richard Manning

“Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted carelessly. “No…

— V.S. Carnes

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

— Thomas a Kempis

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live…

— Philip Yancey

“If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.”

— Thomas à Kempis

Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will…

— Saint Francis de Sales

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

— Berthold Auerbach

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

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

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

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

“The closest she got to pretence was politeness.”

— Alan Bennett