Politeness Quotes

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

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

Politeness is organized indifference.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

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

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

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

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

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

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

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

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 is good nature regulated by good sense.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

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

Politeness is practical Christianity.

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

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

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

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

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

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

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

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

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

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

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

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

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

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.

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

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

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.

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

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.