Awkward Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they…

— Shannon L. Alder

An excess of courtesy is discourtesy

— Japanese Proverb

“Lack of courtesy is an extreme form of disrespect”

— Khaleel Datay

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

— Eric Hoffer

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

— Oliver Herford

“a little modesty stays ridicule”

— Bemy Wells

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

— Michael Dolan

“Nowadays, when more subtle studies and more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing into principles, a vile and misleading uniformity governs our…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

— David Mitchell

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

— Fanny Burney

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

— Jeremy Clarkson

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater