Politeness Quote by German Proverb Download Open image “Politeness is what warmth is to wax” — German Proverb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Politeness
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain… — Henry David Thoreau 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
True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
