Quotes About Politeness

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, "Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous.

Sometimes chivalry is just nice,

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

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.

A boy stepping into the street and opening an umbrella for a girl keeping dry in the doorway.

I tapped the drunken Scotsman on the shoulder and said, as politely as possible: 'Excuse me.' He whirled round, his eyes full of fire and his hands balled into steel-hard fists. But the blow never came. 'Christ, you're a big bastard,' he said, and ran off. It was the proudest moment of my life.

Quiet customers get served first.

Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.

I'm done peeing now." "Thank you for letting me know.

he never tired and was always patient and polite. These were his strengths. His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations.

Don't be snotty too soon. And then don't be snotty at all.

So, Robert Wilson thought to himself, she is giving him a ride, isn't she? Or do you suppose that's her idea of putting up a good show? How should a woman act when she discovers her husband is a bloody coward? She's damn cruel but they're all cruel. They govern, of course, and to govern one has to be cruel sometimes. Still, I've seen enough of their damn terrorism. "Have some more eland," he said to her politely.

She was a Canadian and had all their easy social graces.

Beware of a man with manners.

remember to call them by neutral pronouns like "they" unless they asked me to use a gender. That was the polite thing to do.

Quite," said Silas. "Is there any more pie?" "No, you've got the last piece.