Politeness Quotes

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly on the work that's ahead of us [with Tom Hardey].

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

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

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps its most perfect expression.