Clarity of thought Quote by Theresa Breslin

“I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.”

— Graham Parke

“I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at the same…

— Kent Nerburn

“For a Politeness Monitor, these responses seemed awfully terse and uncommunicative, but who was I to judge?”

— Peter Hessler

“[C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better…

— Patricia Briggs

“I spoke very quietly because the more quietly you speak, the more people listen.”

— Jodi Taylor

“When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something…

— Alexandra Bracken

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the…

— Donna Goddard

“Polite people tend to be more respected, admired, and appreciated than their rude counterparts.”

— Susan C. Young

“Lots of people act well, but very few people talk well, which shows that talking is much the more difficult thing of the two,…

— Oscar Wilde

“my first impression of those people, founded on face and manner alone, was invariably true. My mistake was in suffering them to come nearer…

— Charles Dickens

“It is unimpressive to speaking rudely to others. Often, all we need to do to ensure that we do not launch into a rude…

— Susan C. Young