Quotes About Politeness

You can keep telling girls to be polite, to keep a level head and it'll all work out in the end. But don't be surprised when they figure out that you've been feeding them lies.

Always remember how to behave, how to speak to people, how to respect the world around you

I have heard that you should not do bed business after too much hard work, Snow Flower told me, but I don't believe that my mother-in-law has heard that. She looked exhausted. I felt the same way after visiting my husband's home-from the nonstop labor, from being polite, and from always being watched. This is the one rule my mother-in-law doesn't respect either, I commiserated. Haven't they heard an exhausted well yields no water?

I feel that familiar niggle of not wanting to disappoint anyone, ever, for any reason. Another female quirk, isn't it? Always be polite, meet expectations, smile when you don't want to, cry instead of getting angry. Be pleasing.

We count so much on politeness, those of us who are hiding things. We count on people not staring too long, or asking too many questions.

I knew something was wrong when you started being so polite.

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He calls you occasionally at the office to ask how you are. You doodle numbers and curlicues on the corners of Rolodex cards. Fiddle with your Phi Beta Kappa key. Stare out the window. You always, always, say: Fine.

When affection fell on its ass, politeness could step up.

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

I'll behave like a Turveydrop see

Kate looked surprised, but said nothing and stood looking at the fire as if turning the matter over in her mind and trying to answer the question she was too polite to ask—how could they have a grandmother and know so little about her?

Kindness in looks and words and ways is true politeness, and any one can have it if they only try to treat other people as they like to be treated themselves.

I pressed him no further, and never found out where his father lived.

ramp, it's one of the social graces.

Men who are accustomed to eat at tiny tables in howling gales have curiously neat and finished manners;

remember that even if you intend to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.

Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

Punctuality, said Monte Cristo, is the politeness of kings, according to one of your sovereigns, I think; but it is not the same with travellers. However, I hope you will excuse the two or three seconds I am behindhand; five hundred leagues are not to be accomplished without some trouble, and especially in France, where, it seems, it is forbidden to beat the postilions.

I know that the world is a salon which we ought to leave politely and honestly; that is, after saluting and paying our gambling debts.

Punctuality,' said Monte Cristo, 'is the politeness of kings, or so I believe one of your sovereigns claimed.