Quotes About Politeness

Manners: The Gift of a Gracious

Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Plato's discussants and querents are not polite as students and teachers are polite. They are polite the way only fantasy discussants can be civil inside a fantasy. Were they real, they'd be at each other's throats before eight or nine pages were done.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

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

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

Superior people never make long visits.

Buen chico. Y yo dije: —Gracias por la cena —porque eso es ser educado.

Bueno, ¿cómo te va, capitán? Y yo dije: —Me va muy bien, gracias —que es lo que se supone que tienes que decir.

Look at your waiter's face. He knows. It's another reason to be polite to your waiter: he could save your life with a raised eyebrow or a sigh.

I wonder whether what we call politeness isn't just weakness

Not surprisingly, American officers regarded their British counter parts as 'too polite' and lacking a necessary ruthlessness, especially when it came to sacking incompetent commanders. Churchill

Mmm," he said vaguely, trying to sound polite but disinterested.

I can't have you making tea for me. It's not decent.

For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.

Afrikaans is one of the world's best languages in which to curse; even when spoken politely, it can bruise innocent bystanders.

Do you have a welcome for me?" Shevraeth said with a faint smile as he came leisurely up the steps and inside. "Certainly," I said in a voice so determinedly polite it sounded false even to my own ears.

Who was he talking to? Me? No one ever said "please" to me. I looked around. There was no one else in the room. Old Luria growled again in a deep voice: "Please come and have a look at the Rambam.

No language as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.

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