Quotes About Politeness

Among worldly people manner is contagious.

Je sais que le monde est un salon dont il faut sortir poliment et honnêtement, c'est-à-dire en saluant et en payant ses dettes de jeu.

Ser atento y cortés no es ser cobarde.

When people related by blood were so careful with each other, when they were so very polite, there was soon nothing left to say. Only niceties that meant so little they might as well have been spoken to a complete stranger. Pass the butter, open the door, see you after school, there's rain again, it's sunny, it's cold. Has the dog eaten? Has the window been shut? Where are you going? Why is it I don't know you at all? Such statements did not add up to anything like a family...

Our mother is too well bred to hate,' Franny said. 'She disapproves.

there was the sort of civility that was far worse than yelling and screaming. It was a cold curtain of mistrust. When people related by blood were so careful with each other, when they were so very polite, there was soon nothing left to say. Only niceties that meant so little they might as well have been spoken to a complete stranger. Pass the butter, open the door, see you after school, there's rain again

Some people think politeness is an invitation to invade.

n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

It is one of the important uses of civility to signify resentment.

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.

In polite society what you say to an attractive woman who is dressed in a way that makes you understand the power of biology is, "You look nice.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

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.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

After a minute, Gat leaned back and let me go first. "Not because you're a girl but because I'm a good person," he told me.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

She strove in vain against the echoing walls of their civility.

You are not to say 'stink,' " interrupted Helen; "at least, you may say it, but you must pretend you are being funny while you say it.

Mr. Beebe smiled as Miss Alan plunged into an anecdote which he knew she would be unable to finish in the presence of a gentleman.

She had learnt the lingo, but only to speak to her servants, so she knew none of the politer forms and of the verbs only the imperative mood.