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Politeness Quotes

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

You can achieve much more with armaments and courtesy than just courtesy.
Authors on Politeness Quotes: Samuel Johnson Stanisław I Leszczyński Francois de La Rochefoucauld Oliver Goldsmith Paul Ford Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Vladimir Putin Hudson Taylor Fanny Burney Veronica Roth Dumas Malone Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sonia Sotomayor Paul Valery George Bernard Shaw Voltaire Louis XVIII of France Orville Dewey Yann Martel Josh Billings Steven Knight Patricia Hampl Gustave Flaubert Theodore Roosevelt Nathaniel Parker Willis Samuel Richardson William Allingham Julia McNair Wright Sydney Smith Barrett Brown Letitia Elizabeth Landon Thomas B. Macaulay Marcus Tullius Cicero
2.
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
William Gilmore Simms

3.
He is the very pineapple of politeness.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

4.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith

5.
Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.
Sonia Sotomayor

6.
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Louis XVIII of France

7.
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
Tommy Lee Jones

8.
True power and true politeness are above vanity.
Voltaire

9.
Politeness is organized indifference.
Paul Valery

10.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Jean de la Bruyere

11.
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
Daniel Dennett

12.
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
Josh Billings

13.
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
George Bernard Shaw

14.
Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
Veronica Roth

15.
Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
Barrett Brown

16.
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

17.
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
Theodore Roosevelt

18.
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
Thomas B. Macaulay

19.
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

20.
Politeness is practical Christianity.
Orville Dewey

21.
In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
Hudson Taylor

22.
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
Samuel Johnson

23.
Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
Oliver Goldsmith

24.
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

25.
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
Sydney Smith

26.
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
Samuel Smiles

27.
There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

28.
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Nathaniel Parker Willis

29.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert

30.
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
Dumas Malone

31.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
Samuel Johnson

32.
Politeness smooths wrinkles.
Joseph Joubert

33.
Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

34.
Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
Samuel Richardson

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Politeness is the chief sign of culture.
Baltasar Gracian

36.
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
Stanisław I Leszczyński

37.
such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
Fanny Burney

38.
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
Edmund Wilson

39.
The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.
Paul Ford

40.
There is nothing costs less than civility.
Miguel de Cervantes

41.
There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.
Yiyun Li

42.
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

43.
I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.
Randy Pausch

44.
Home is the place where true politeness tells.
Julia McNair Wright

45.
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
Yann Martel

46.
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

47.
I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.
Patricia Hampl

48.
Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

49.
Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
William Allingham

50.
That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
Friedrich Nietzsche