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Quotes About Politeness

I think I tend to try to let a woman walk through a door first, and I walk on the outside on the street. But that's probably because I'm an ancient creature.
~ Jim Carter
Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.
~ Ant Middleton
Imagine a superstar of his stature coming to someone like me and saying, 'Hi Meghana, I'm Mohanlal. Nice to meet you!' I was so taken aback by his politeness.
~ Meghana Raj
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Tank you veddy much.
~ Andy Kaufman
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man
~ Richard Whately
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
~ Richard Whately
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.
~ Richelle Mead
God," I moaned. "Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?" "No one made you keep drinking it." "Hey, don't get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite." "Sure," she said.
~ Richelle Mead
Good day, Sir.
~ Roald Dahl
He should have burped," Charlie said. "Of course he should have burped," said Mr. Wonka. "I stood there shouting, 'Burp, you silly ass, burp, or you'll never come down again! But he didn't or couldn't or wouldn't, I don't know which. Maybe he was too polite. He must be on the moon by now." On the next door, it said, SQUARE CANDIES THAT LOOK ROUND.
~ Roald Dahl
Hey!' Bruno called out 'Give me the rest of that banana I was eating.
~ Roald Dahl
Thank you so much for the tea.' The
~ Roald Dahl
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
An armed society is a polite society.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady? I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but 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
Minnet, diÅŸ bilemenin edepli halidir.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Don't anybody mention ice skating; Grandmaw is too old and frail and it wouldn't be polite. Hilda, you suggest dominoes and we'll all chime in—Grandmaw likes dominoes. We'll go skating some other time. Okay, kids?" Jubal
~ Robert A. Heinlein
But liking cats is hard to fake to a cat person. There are cat people and there are others, more than a majority probably, who "cannot abide a harmless, necessary cat." If they try to pretend, out of politeness or any reason, it shows, because they don't understand how to treat cats—and cat protocol is more rigid than that of diplomacy.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
am inhibited in expressing myself by the presence of a lady; therefore I cannot adequately discuss your ancestry, personal habits, morals, and destination.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
but 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
Who sneezed? WHO SNEEZED? I did. I did what? I sneezed. I SNEEZED, SIR! I sneezed, sir.
~ Robert A. Heinlein