quotes about Politeness
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,
-- Daniel Dennett -
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
-- Dumas MaloneSource : Dumas Malone (1951). “Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson and the rights of man”
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They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
-- Edmund Wilson -
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such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
-- Fanny Burney -
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
-- Josh Billings -
Home is the place where true politeness tells.
-- Julia McNair WrightSource : Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”
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Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
-- Louis XVIII of FranceSource : Attributed, in 'Souvenirs de J. Lafitte' (1844) bk. 1, ch. 3
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
-- Madame de Stael -
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington -
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis -
Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
-- Oliver Goldsmith -
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
-- P. T. Barnum -
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I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.
-- Randy Pausch -
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.
-- Richelle Mead -
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
-- Samuel Richardson -
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There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
-- StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„skiSource : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.179
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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 -
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
-- Tommy Lee JonesSource : "Me and Mr Jones". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2002.
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You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.
-- Vladimir PutinSource : "Meeting U.S. Envoy, Putin Appears to Soften His Tone". www.nytimes.com. November 19, 2014.
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Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
-- William Allingham -
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
-- William Gilmore SimmsSource : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.235
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Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
-- Barrett BrownSource : "Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny". Book by Barrett Brown and Jon P. Alston, 2007.
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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 -
The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.
-- Paul Ford