Politeness Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Politeness

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~


True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
~By Alexander Pope ~


Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~


Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~


Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
~By Philip Stanhope ~


Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~


When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
~By Ronald Knox ~


Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~


Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~


One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
~By Josh Billings ~


Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~


Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~


In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~


Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~


I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~


Politeness is the flower of humanity.
~By Joseph Joubert ~


The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~


Politeness is organized indifference.
~By Paul Valery ~


Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
~By Louis XVIII ~


Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~


Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
~By Edwin Land ~


The only true source of politeness is consideration.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~


Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
~By Madame de Stael ~


In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
~By Paul Getty ~


Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~


I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~


Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~


For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~


It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
~By Khaleda Zia ~


Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
~By Honore de Balzac ~

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