Quotes About Politeness

A society that once operated with some degree of sanity and politeness has become largely demented and rude.

As for the other little amenities — yes, the lady lets the man light her cigarette, help her on with her coat, and open the door for her. Even if he's the boss. Manners are manners, and success doesn't mean that a woman has to forgo the courtesies that make life easy and pleasant.

She wasn't nice. She was rarely polite. And no one who knew her well would have called her a generous woman.

Common politeness required that I find out; so did extreme nosiness.

On peut rater sa vie par politesse

Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

But Johannes had said, "Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

I am sorry to disturb you,' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us.

You're very polite, but I belong to another generation

She yawned gracefully in my face.

Give me some bacon and eggs and coffee, please. The

I don't mean to be rude, but

I cannot say whether there is fur on my wife's legs for I have never seen them nor do I intend to commit myself to the folly of looking at them. In any event and in all politeness -nothing would be further from me than to insult a guest- I deem the point you have made as unimportant because there is surely nothing in the old world to prevent a deceitful kangaroo from shaving the fur from her legs, assuming she is a woman?

He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.' 'What you got on it?' the girl said. 'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.' 'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be polite.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

You are a very beautiful girl, Rosita," he said. "Thank you, senor" Rosita answered.

Our teacher, Justin Neely, a young man devoted to language revival, explains that while there are several words for thank you, there is no word for please. Food was meant to be shared, no added politeness needed; it was simply a cultural given that one was asking respectfully. The missionaries took this absence as further evidence of crude manners.