Disposition Quote by George Eliot

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is…

— Ovid

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

— Martin Schulz

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

— John Hall

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

— Mason Cooley

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

— Philip Sidney

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind…

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

— Honore de Balzac

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

— Aristotle