Quotes About Manners Politeness

#1. The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#2. A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter
an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.

Nicole Krauss

#5. Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

Henri Rousseau

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

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#7. Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the greenhorn or counterfeit, and certainly the ill-bred. "The bravest are the tenderest; the gentlest are the daring.

Kenneth W. Estes

#8. A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Bryant McGill

#9. Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. I don't believe in texting while dining, sending one-word e-mails in lieu of formal thank-you cards, wearing shorts to the theater, or settling for any of the modern trends that favor comfort over politeness, ease over style. Manners are simply about asking yourself, What's the right thing to do?

Tim Gunn

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

Julia Ward Howe

#12. A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public ...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#14. Manners," I say. "It ain't polite to taste people. Shit.

Nenia Campbell

#15. POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.

Carew Papritz

#16. He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#17. I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

Astrid Lindgren

#18. Sydney tried - sometimes he really tried - but his default mindset didn't have those kinds of manners. What he really meant was more like "Jacob, get over here or I'll freeze your underwear." Something like that.

Rebecca McKinsey

#19. The natural flow of discourse must be calm and serene; if wit, whim, fun and fire are present, they will not fail to flash brightly along its surface; but they can never constitute the main body of the stream itself.

Arthur Martine

#20. Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Theodore Roosevelt

#21. I suggest he starts introducing himself as "Lessman"; he is classless, tactless, and mannerless.

Natalya Vorobyova

#22. E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

Jeff Bezos

#23. Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.

Bono

#24. Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.

Geoff Dyer

#25. Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

#26. The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

Jean De La Bruyere

#27. Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Bryant McGill

#28. Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto Von Bismarck

#29. As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't.

Tiffany Madison

#30. Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

#31. The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself.

Anita Brookner

#32. She already told me that she doesn't have to be nice, so why do I? Because my mother raised me right? That's why wolves always win. Because the rest of us mind our manners and get devoured for our efforts.

Sheryl J. Anderson

#33. I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

Emma Donoghue

#34. That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

Danny Boyle

#35. Why is it that those who are the most concerned with manners rarely have any themselves?

Heidi Schulz

#36. She had the comfort of appearing very polite, while feeling very cross.

Jane Austen

#37. The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.

Lord Chesterfield

#38. 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.

Jean De La Bruyere