Top 100 Quotes About Politeness
#1. Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?
Andrew Ashling
#2. You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background
George F. Kennan
#3. E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
Jeff Bezos
#4. 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
#5. The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
#6. Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise ...
Emma Thompson
#7. Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy.
David Hume
#8. During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.
Arnold Bennett
#9. Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
Samuel Johnson
#11. 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
#13. The need of politeness is at its maximum in speaking with foreigners, and is so irksome as to be paralysing to those who are only accustomed to compatriots.
Bertrand Russell
#14. 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
#15. Try to be polite."
"I'm always polite."
"You're always eyeing people's valuables. That's hardly polite.
Jodi Meadows
#16. I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.
Randy Pausch
#17. Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Bryant McGill
#18. Be not intimidated ... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
John Adams
#19. Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#21. Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
Gretchen Rubin
#24. Who keeps you safe from the Amyr? The singers? The Sithe? From all that would harm you in the world? Haliax asked with calm politeness, as if genuinely curious as to what the answer might be.
Patrick Rothfuss
#25. Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto Von Bismarck
#27. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.
Lord Chesterfield
#28. Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain ... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
Maria Edgeworth
#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. My friend, we are not dressed for going into town," I insisted, heading him off in another direction.
"Why?" asked Insel in bewildered politeness. "You look as lovely as you always do.
Mina Loy
#32. There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.
Fanny Burney
#33. Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce boum.
E. M. Forster
#34. The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark Twain
#35. True power and true politeness are above vanity.
Voltaire
#37. Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
#39. Forgas and his colleagues have demonstrated diverse benefits of a sad mood. It can improve memory performance, reduce errors in judgment, make people slightly better at detecting deception in others, and foster more effective interpersonal strategies, such as increasing the politeness of requests.
Jonathan Rottenberg
#40. You got the good heart. Underneath all the other stuff. Good heart is eighty-five percent of everything in life.' ...
'What is the other fifteen percent?' Nat said. 'Just out of curiosity?'
'Politeness,' Mr. Jones said without hesitation. 'And keeping a level head.
Michael Chabon
#41. I suggest he starts introducing himself as "Lessman"; he is classless, tactless, and mannerless.
Natalya Vorobyova
#42. The politeness was unbearable. They avoided touching each other, careful as strangers on a train ... A family can go on for years without the love that once bound it together, like a lovely old wall that stays standing long after rain has crumbled the mortar.
Kathleen Winter
#43. Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.
Haruki Murakami
#44. In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
African Spir
#45. Time is no one's friend
time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.
Catherynne M Valente
#46. Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he was now quitting school. It was the best day of her life, she replied. With unexpected politeness he bowed, thanked her, and said, likewise.
Carsten Jensen
#48. As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.
Sir Fulke Greville
#49. My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
Roger Moore
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human.
Matt Haig
#54. I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
Emma Donoghue
#55. You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett."
"Had politeness beat into me.
Lorraine Heath
#56. Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.
Lord Chesterfield
#57. I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
Damien Rice
#58. Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.
E.B. White
#59. Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.
Idries Shah
#60. It was as though all the most fundamentalist people of all three religions had descended upon the Old City, leaving no room for even simple things like politeness and common courtesy. There was no love in the city of God.
Jared Brock
#61. 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
#62. he was whisked away from the lines of passengers and led along corridors with the politeness you might observe when dealing with a politician belonging to a country that had nuclear weapons and a carefree approach to their deployment.
Terry Pratchett
#63. Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
Letitia Baldrige
#64. Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Alphonse Karr
#65. The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.
Lyle W. Dorsett
#66. True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.
Frances Harper
#67. Why is it that those who are the most concerned with manners rarely have any themselves?
Heidi Schulz
#68. Do not be deceived by the the politeness of the fey. Fey are almost always polite. This does not mean they will not happily remove your head.
Julie Kagawa
#69. Humor is the politeness of despair.
Boris Vian
#70. Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
#71. Kindness in looks and words and ways is true politeness, and any one can have it if they only try to treat other people as they like to be treated themselves.
Louisa May Alcott
#72. Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Bryant H. McGill
#74. His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
Jane Austen
#75. A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. She had the comfort of appearing very polite, while feeling very cross.
Jane Austen
#77. 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.
Dorothea Johnson
#78. Politeness, it turned out, was almost as effective when you wanted someone to do something for you. And kindness went further toward lasting admiration than any amount of mind control. Word
Marissa Meyer
#79. The telegraphic style banishes all the forms of politeness,
James Gleick
#80. (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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#81. In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
James Hudson Taylor
#83. 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
#84. It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.
James McBride
#85. 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
#86. But Johannes had said, Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.
Anne Holm
#88. When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. 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.
Julia Child
#90. I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy
#93. Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
#94. All Butcher's previous politeness was revealed as so much bad milk floating in a cup of welcome tea ...
Peter Carey
#95. Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the 'civilized' as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.
Vinod Pande
#96. Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
Barrett Brown
#97. Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
Tommy Lee Jones
#98. The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.
Ariel Gore
#99. Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.
Samuel Johnson
#100. Perhaps the best guide is treat people, everyone you meet with, with the politeness and consideration with which you would wish them to treat you? - Georgiana Darcy
Janet Aylmer
