1.
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.
4.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith
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
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
15.
Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
Barrett Brown
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
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
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
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
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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
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
45.
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
Yann Martel
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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
49.
Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
William Allingham