Politeness quotes

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hypocrisy #Politeness

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,
-- Daniel Dennett

#Rude #Politeness

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

#Mind #Politeness #Boldness

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
-- Edmund Wilson

#Special #Ordinary #Politeness

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

#Politeness #Restraint

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

#Desire #Politeness #Treated

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Mind #Politeness #Delicate

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Accomplishment #Easy #Politeness

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

#Art #Politeness

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

#Soul #Virtue #Politeness

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
-- Josh Billings

#Logic #Politeness #Convince

Home is the place where true politeness tells.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Home #Politeness

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
-- Louis XVIII of France

#Kings #Punctuality #Politeness

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

#Art #Courtesy #Politeness

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Addresses #Introduction #Politeness

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

#Chiefs #Politeness #Conscience

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

#Study #Manners #Politeness

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Results #Politeness #Good Nature

Politeness is practical Christianity.
-- Orville Dewey

#Christianity #Politeness #Practicals

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
-- P. T. Barnum

#Business #Civility #Politeness

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.
-- Randy Pausch

#Suffering #Abundance #Politeness

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

#Perfect #Faces #Politeness

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

#Civilization #Atheism #Politeness

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

#Honesty #Politeness

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

#Observation #Politeness

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.
-- Stanisław I Leszczyński

#Natural #Politeness

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

#Dignity #Politeness

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Benevolence #Politeness #Wells

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
-- Tommy Lee Jones

#Morning #Kindness #Politeness

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Weapons #Politeness

Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
-- William Allingham

#World #Cost #Politeness

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

#Consideration #Source #Politeness

Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
-- Barrett Brown

#Advantage #Politeness #Wells

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].
-- Steven Knight

#Thinking #Helping #Politeness

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.
-- Paul Ford

#Remember #Primates #Politeness